Tha person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life does not personally punish people or seek to cause suffering; it simply moves. It is only when we claim life should… — HeatherAsh Amara Copy Share Image
“This man was her captor, yet he freed her soul; he’d caused her agony, yet also delivered peace; every touch was euphoric… — Lisa Eugene Copy Share Image
Now my soul is incarnate in my country, My body has swallowed her soul, And I and my country are one. My… — Adam Mickiewicz Copy Share Image
“Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of… — Rhidian Brook Copy Share Image
At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“No, what one wanted, really, was the city or anyone in it to see how one suffered. Of course, this being New… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX… — Malachi Martin Copy Share Image
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The perturbations, anxieties, depravations, deaths, exceptions in the physical or moral order, spirit of negation, brutishness, hallucinations fostered by the will, torments,… — Lautréamont Copy Share Image
Thousands of people who say they love animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering, death alone is not enough and pleasure have consequences. wicked and fucked.… — Ira N. Barin Copy Share Image
“He wanted to protect her and fuck her and comfort her and destroy her all at once. The chaos of his emotions… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
The wealthy don't cry over the fact that they are wealthy as long as the poor cry about the poverty that surrounds… — Morph Vishn Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“He knew in what strange heavens they were suffering, and what dull hells were teaching them the secret of some new joy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons. — Barbara Ann Kipfer Copy Share Image
Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee? — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image