“[Men] suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
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May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If we're constantly suppressing our strong, heavy emotions - like fear and anger and outrage and sadness - it weakens us. But… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint...… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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“And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world… — St. Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
“These tears are proof that there is love in the world. Tears are only bitter when we cry selfishly for ourselves. When… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
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My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying… — John Green Copy Share Image
The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
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Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
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Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Fashion sighs after trends. I want timeless elegance. Fashion has no time. I do. I say: Hello Lady, how can I help… — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
“It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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“When the flames are completely extinguished, craving is replaced by a state of perfect contentment and serenity, known as nirvana (the literal… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Hate nobody; love everybody. It won't cost you anything. Love never costs anything. Love is the most selfish act. It gives you… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“- Te iubesc atat de mult, mi-a zis incet. Daca as putea , ti-as lua toate tristetile si toate durerile. - Cu… — Irina Binder Copy Share Image
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
You go through so much work, making the music, writing the lyrics, finishing it, mixing it, putting visuals together for it, putting… — Griff Copy Share Image
To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
![“[Men] suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it? ... But what about me [Satan]? I suffer, but still, I don't live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in…” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/124/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_life_men-suffer-of-course-but-then-they-live_3112046.jpg)
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