I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“strengthening habitual patterns of suffering. We begin to see this more and more clearly, and we begin to realize that we can… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Call anguish--anguish, and despair--despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“We are doomed to remain incomplete in our present existence. Our hopes and deepest longings will remain nothing but just that; Our… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“It is always this impermanency that has made man seek something beyond the hills, investing it with permanency, with divinity, with beauty,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
“The fault in suffering such torment is his, for his heart's boundless capacity to love was given so that he might direct… — Said Nursi Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“(In response to 'In the end moral and political truths have to proved on the body.[ ie put one's body on the… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
When you're working and you're busy and you're successful, no matter what, something suffers, whether it's your relationship with your mother, your… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the… — Albert Sabin Copy Share Image
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan,… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me,… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
![“[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.” quote by Vincent de Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/741/vincent-de-paul-1676_abandonment_i-n-order-to-raise-a-soul-to-the-highest_1457809.png)
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