If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaches out to embrace suffering Syrians, his government seems ready to throw embattled Mexicans under the bus… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
By struggling toovercome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life anddevelop… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“A phantom pain lanced through his ribs, brutally violent and nauseating. His knees buckled. Not pain from a wound of his—but another’s.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be… — Carol Browner Copy Share Image
“As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and pains… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They called our arrangement a 'Death Pact' - but, really, that's not a phrase that tells you anything important. It's just the… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Physical, emotional, and mental pain are inevitable in life. Suffering is another matter. Suffering is the personalization we bring to our difficulties.… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
Do you know what will be left after you open that box? Even though a lot of disasters came out, because we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
At any one particular time, there is something in my life that is suffering as a result of my many responsibilities; most… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We know that we've done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn't the goal, but it was one… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“Comparing is empoverishing our own experience. There is meaning to our suffering, if we rise above it.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I… — Olatz Campos + Yann Martel Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Not facing the growth that we have to face always leads to further suffering—and the further suffering is usually progressively worse.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in… — Tom Paxton Copy Share Image
Think lightly of hell, and you will think lightly of the cross. Think little of the sufferings of lost souls, and you… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image