Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Only through pain will you have beauty. Only through suffering will you find peace. I wrap, I bind, but you will have… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
“Suffering is accumulated, said my friend, that’s a fact, and the greater the suffering, the smaller the coincidence.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
For those suffering from depression, I know how dark and endless that tunnel can feel. But if happiness seems impossible to find,… — Zelda Williams Copy Share Image
Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is both a skill and an attitude toward living that originated thousands of years ago as part of Buddhist philosophy. According… — Melanie Greenberg Copy Share Image
“In the last essay he wrote before he died, the great Christian writer C. S. Lewis said, “We have no right to… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, in some hours, how far easier it were to die… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
“Sam's hand wavered. His mind was hot with wrath and the memory of evil. I would be just to slay this treacherous,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“God famously doesn't afflict Job because of anything Job has done, but because he wants to prove a point to Satan. Twenty… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
God has made us humans in God's own image. So therefore the highest way to talk about God is by some kind… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
“When you are in the ether you remember that you are a part of consciousness and that you are being sent out… — Erin Pavlina Copy Share Image
“On the cross, God subverted everything we intuitively understand about power … For many of us, coming to terms with the thought… — Matt Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“But the agony of her loss reminded her that every day was a gift, and the depth of her love reminded her… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the acutest of agonies are difficult to find expression in the given vocabulary: words fail but pain prevails.” — Girdhar Joshi Copy Share Image
“the greatest agony on earth didn’t lie in the pain of living or the pain of death, but in the pain of… — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to… — Naomi Benaron Copy Share Image
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know how to communicate my suffering to anyone else. My anger was returning. I was screaming for help, but the… — Lori Schiller Copy Share Image
But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I really want to say, 'Thank God I'm alive.' I want to forgive the people who caused my suffering. I did. — Phan Thi Kim Phuc Copy Share Image
Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Everything about my mother was a source of prepubescent agony. On the low end of the Mortification Scale there was her name:… — Jerry Stahl 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
