“ A Brief for the Defense Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“They find it increasingly hard to believe those glorious truths that God is near, that he hears, that he cares, that he… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“«If you'll choose to help your love, you'll sow death and suffering among the people with whom you live. You will be… — Chiara Cilli Copy Share Image
“I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what… — Russ Ramsey Copy Share Image
The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Until the Second Coming, sin will remain a part of earthly existence. And as long as there is sin, there will be… — Keith A. Mathison Copy Share Image
“Suffering has its place in the scheme of things. It serves a purpose even though the sufferer may be entirely free from… — Joseph F. Merrill Copy Share Image
“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“The suppression of suffering? Can I really have believed it, have believed that death merely strikes out what exists, and leaves everything… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I waved my hand in front of my face, obi-wan style. "I am not here." Niall's mucas glands kicked into overdrive. "Eoin's… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion,… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
“That was what made the story so epic: the player, the hero, had to suffer mightily en route to his final triumph.… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Had Job been Calvinist or Lutheran, the book of Job would have been very different. His perplexity would then have been—how God… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O the ultimate evil in the temporal world is deeper than any specific evil, such as hatred, or suffering, or death! The… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“I am willing without further exercise in pain to open my heart. And this needs no doctrine or theology of suffering. We… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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