I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
If there is a way to free ourselves from suffering We must use every moment to find it. Only a fool wants… — 7th Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Human suffering is caused mainly by ideas, emotions, and thoughts which are the handiwork of the human itself.” — Shai Tubali Copy Share Image
Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“Woman is not at fault, sex is not at fault; the fault is in your tendencies [vruti]. The tendencies indeed interfere and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don't advertise… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Life, at all times full of pain, is more painful in our time than in the two centuries that preceded it. The… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless. Spiritual… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“ I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease." — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps… — Chiara Lubich Copy Share Image
I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama. — Luis Negron Copy Share Image
If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice. — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The precariatised mind is one without anchors, flitting from subject to subject, in the extreme suffering from attention deficit disorder. But it… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“God gives us time to live through our pains and sufferings, and then He brings us through with His comforting love.” — Shareka Smith Copy Share Image
I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.” — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
Heartbreak brings us immense pain and suffering but in reality we must realize that it brings us one step closer to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of… — Michael Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image