If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide?… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
There are people who are destined to embrace endless pain and suffering, and there are people who desire to dream. Everybody dreams,… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
“One of those realizations was this: that life itself is a form of suffering. The rich suffer because of their riches. The… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Whenever I notice something about myself I don’t like, or whenever something goes wrong in my life, I silently repeat the following… — Kristin Neff Copy Share Image
“All the pains are caused from going against the ‘nature’! 'Nature' adjusts everything but one does 'egoism' against ‘nature’!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable… — Jennifer DeLucy Copy Share Image
He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
“When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“I knew too much about hurt, but I didn’t know how much more a girl could suffer until I did.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an unseen jailer, when… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about,… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“How can you escape from your own conscience, the reality of your own actions?” — Neil Walker Copy Share Image
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If it were not for the Eucharist, if it were not for this marvelous manifestation of God's love, if it were not… — Theodore Edgar McCarrick Copy Share Image
Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The universe is chaotic and meaningless, and it's good to laugh about it. That's my stance on life, actually. Some people go… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little… — Wendie Malick Copy Share Image
Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The most unbearable moment in my life is when I see someone in pain. Nothing is worst than watching human suffering and… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
