No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way. Living wild… — Sark Copy Share Image
Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly… — Grant Cardone Copy Share Image
“As I have said, the Bible consistently changes the questions we bring to the problem of pain. It rarely, or ambiguously, answers… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Do not try to improve anyone, but try and improve your own self. Even the Tirthankars (Omniscients) had not done egoism of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God,… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“It is easy to suffer for a cause or for a mission; this ennobles the heart of the person suffering. But how… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Some people are just addicted to suffering. They think that it will somehow make them happy at the end when really what… — Aokigahara29 Copy Share Image
To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
“A person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their arms grow back" may be the best description I've ever read… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“You are transformed and purified through the sufferings, chosen voluntarily, for achieving a greater purpose in life.” — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
My first reaction in pastoral care is not to explain. And again, I don't think the primary purpose of the Bible is… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“At no time in the history of man has the world been so full of pain and anguish. Here and there, however,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content. — Sally Jessy Raphael Copy Share Image
When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and… — Khandi Alexander Copy Share Image
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote:… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh!… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop. I knew that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Light is but suffering harnessed, Genius is brokenness harnessed.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image