No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to suffer economic decline; those with low and falling tax burdens are… — Lawrence Kudlow Copy Share Image
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the Olympics fail, human rights will suffer. The government would stop paying any attention to the rest of the world. I… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“Seneca describes this in an extraordinary passage, in which he astutely observes that most human suffering relates to rumination about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them.… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“God allows you to struggle, even though his power could prevent it, because his wise and compassionate authority knows that the benefit… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely… Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in the curative powers of suffering and tragedy; they happen because they’re part of life and shouldn’t be seen… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Being in love doesn't mean you have to sit there and suffer through the pain, hurt and tears.. if it doesn't feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il. — Ed Royce Copy Share Image
God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in… — Pele Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people’s shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The thing most disabled people cite when they are seriously or terminally ill is not the pain, not the suffering - it's… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The suffering of being imprisoned rests in the fact that it is impossible, at any time, to escape from oneself.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.” — Dhaval Gajera Copy Share Image
