“I grew up poor, hated, the victim of physical, emotional, and sexual violence, and I know that suffering does not ennoble. It… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you."… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. — Plato Copy Share Image
In my country Kenya, I have been to see young children suffering with cancer. I help them to raise money for treatment. — Victor Wanyama Copy Share Image
One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Pain? He could handle that, no problem; it was the idea that the female he loved was suffering that made him want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain,… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
“Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“a man’s suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“For the first time in this 11 years--I have come to love the darkness--for I believe now that it is a part,… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to… — W. A. Criswell Copy Share Image
Our friends on the other side decided early on they didn't want to engage with us in a serious way, a serious… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because… — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa. — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
“By suffering, one is shown a path to awareness. Along that path is where we are truly born. When we choose to… — VD Copy Share Image
It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“But their suffering doesn’t mitigate yours.” “Suffering doesn’t make me special. Sooner or later, life knocks everyone down. It’s how you deal… — Lori Wilde Copy Share Image
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Diamond cannot be polished without friction, gold cannot be purified without fire. good people go through trials but don't suffer, with that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
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