During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it… — Elizabeth of the Trinity Copy Share Image
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced. — Twiggy Copy Share Image
“What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.” — Goethe Copy Share Image
You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“If remorse is regret amplified by moral awareness, it implies deeper involvement with the suffering of others, grounded in empathy, reflecting insufficient… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I love my mother. My mother loves my dad. Those two facts are undeniable. I want my father to live. I want… — John Passaro Copy Share Image
Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a… — Esther Smith Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“If it is avoidable, the meaningful thing to do is to remove its cause, for unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.” — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
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