Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn… — Julianne MacLean Copy Share Image
“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. —Antonio Porchia” — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor’s side with a. happy determination which deludes… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
So the main question is not, Which humans brought about the death of Jesus but, What did the death of Jesus bring… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't feel pressure because what everyone expects of me is what I expect of myself anyway. Everyone expects me to win… — Jake Matthews Copy Share Image
It would be like when the Cubs won the World Series. Everybody in the country has probably been cheering for them for… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it! — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
“The art of letting go, if mastered, may save us from our own suffering.” Excerpt From: Sarah Voldeng. “The Art of an… — Sarah Voldeng Copy Share Image
We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Pains…!!! They only can be hide under a beautiful smile… But never wash away with the tears of every nights... — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“For continual suffering had annihilated religious faith within me: to the utterly miserable –the unloving and the unloved –there is no religion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead;… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Our suffering comes from our attachment to people and things, our repeated attempts to find something lasting where there is nothing lasting… — Philip Martin Copy Share Image
Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.” — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“We are the collective creator of our own agony. It is time for a re-awakening of consciousness when we recognize the best… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
