Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God… — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, dont sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It's something… — Stan Wawrinka Copy Share Image
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy,… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Come to me once more, and abate my torment; Take the bitter care from my mind, and give me All I long… — Sappho Copy Share Image
You look the conflict with your ego & i look the same conflict with thought.Your ego never gives me a second chance..we… — Gopichand Lagadapati Copy Share Image
I have two children of my own; I can't imagine anything more horrific than to have a child suffering with EB. — Ian Ziering Copy Share Image
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and… — William James Copy Share Image
“This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“One should get as much pleasure from spending money as one gets from earning it. But at that time, one says, ‘I… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby… — Morris Fishbein Copy Share Image
The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn. — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
