I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You… — Derek Clayton Copy Share Image
I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The growth of Sentiment is the increase of suffering; man is never entirely miserable until he finds out how wronged he is… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
“I want to be that Tantalus, unfed / forever, that my want's agony declare / that such as we want has nothing… — William Bronk Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
“Our difficulty or inability to perceive the experience of others…is all the more pronounced the more distant these experiences are from ours… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“According to Seneca, “A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.” He therefore recommends that we “do… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering. — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that now—suffering in the darkness that might just be the end of everything—is when we need knowledge the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the… — Frank X. Barron Copy Share Image
The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically,… — John Green Copy Share Image
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“When you are at unease with ‘what is,’ you experience suffering; when you are at ease with ‘what is,’ you experience peace;… — Yogi Kanna Copy Share Image
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God. — Samuel Clarke Copy Share Image
Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'd been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Emptiness eatting down into my very soul, Silently screaming myself to sleep at night, Anguish exacting its excruciating toll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
My mind... It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
![“MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/964/christopher-hitchens-117_cures_mt-mother-teresa-was-not-a-friend-of-the_3074896.jpg)
