People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a… — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
From the extreme political polarization that is everywhere - there's so much suffering going on - so many people are really thirsty… — Jonathan Van Ness Copy Share Image
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small… — Aaron Cox Copy Share Image
Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul… — William Fritz Copy Share Image
If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan. — Eric Reeves Copy Share Image
I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
“But we all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and loving yield suffering.… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
Even as the government dominates the headlines, private entrepreneurs are busy every day working to improve products and services that improve our… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“I do not suppose that at any moment of history has the agony of the world been so great or widespread. Tonight… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be… — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Pain is only Temporarily. Suffering is only Normal & Changing is only necessary. But Living is not indispensable — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause… — Jack Cade Copy Share Image
“If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much… — Tommy Tran Copy Share Image
“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it.” — Brian Staveley Copy Share Image
“Volpe expands their worldview and shows them that struggle and suffering are universal, but so are hope and resilience.” — Michael Sokolove Copy Share Image
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
