Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. And in the end, faith will not disappoint. Faith, hope, and dreams will prevail... Our time… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
We're all afraid of suffering or agony or torture. It's only natural in some ways. It's only human, let's say. I don't… — Sark Copy Share Image
“The naïve girl in me had been bitch-slapped into womanhood. I’d been razed by pain, grief, loss and suffering, and honed by… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life. — Desire-Joseph Mercier Copy Share Image
It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak Copy Share Image
You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
His guilt is why Acheron went out of his way to make sure that all of you had servants and pay for… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“4 the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue.. I will not complain… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Human being can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. it iz the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my… — Caroline Kettlewell Copy Share Image
...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
“And in its shade our woes will fall Pain and suffering, sorrow and all They’ll fall like glistening diamond drops You see,… — Heather Burch Copy Share Image
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Discipline weights ounces--regret weighs… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I have found that most people are more willing to accept physical pain and limitation rather than acknowledge and deal with the… — Tobe Hanson Copy Share Image
“They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Loosen the bonds of discursive thought. Extend the circle of caring. Cease armoring against suffering. Wish for others the same happiness you… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
A human life is a schoolingAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. for… — Gottfried Keller Copy Share Image
To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women! — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“It is to such sufferings that we attach the pleasure of loving, of delighting in the most insignificant remarks of a woman,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We pit our pain against God, holding tally and requiring meaning, instead of saying the truth: This isn't God's will.” — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?” — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“In short, dwell on the negative and our experience here will be that of suffering, but change our minds and focus on… — Brad Olsen Copy Share Image
Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow… — James Mercer Copy Share Image