To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hoping not to be burned.… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Christian psychologist Larry Crabb makes the following challenging assessment: We treat personal discomfort as the central evil from which we need to… — Ramon Presson Copy Share Image
We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
You do not have to suffer from regret. You can stop beating yourself up, it is not serving you. Learn, take action,… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I hope that people will come and experience our play 'A Small Oak Tree Runs Red' . I don't want anybody to… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Illness especially, may be a blessed forerunner of the individual’s conversion. Not only does it prevent him from realizing his desires; it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
If we walk down the sidewalk of any street in America a significant number of the people we pass by, if we… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“To my unsuspecting love. When I look into your eyes, I lose all sense of time and place. Reason robbed, clear thought… — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by… — Theodoret Copy Share Image
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head. Have I not… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass...all… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“I lie stretched out, inert; all I see is emptiness, all I live on is emptiness, all I move in is emptiness.… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“What do you do about emotional pain, Lionel?’ I ask. In red lamplight, she rises from the bath like the prow of… — Catriona Ross Copy Share Image
And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I just heard that some lead was coming into Newark into schools, and I asked the question, "Whose schools?" They said, "The… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
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