The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated… — Mencius Copy Share Image
I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers.… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Miserable humanity was clamouring from the depths of its abyss of suffering, and the clamour swept along, sending a shudder down every… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The world can understand well enough the process of perishing for want of food: perhaps few persons can enter into or follow… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“I knew this guy he'd been in a motorcycle accident and it really ruined him and he was a linesman working on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
“Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good… — Alan Heathcock Copy Share Image
I know a lot of other actors that don't like to look at other references to their characters and things. But I… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially… — John Stott Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
“We're the unmended, the untended, cold soldiers of the shoe. We're the neglected, the never resurrected, agonies of the few. We're the… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“In my lifelong study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they might try, they have found no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity. We're looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. Like every generation before ours… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“The word suffer in its original sense means “to allow,” such as in one of Shakespeare’s dramas when a courtier says, “I… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“We are suffering, all of us, because of the emptiness that surrounds us, that infiltrates between us, that penetrates through us. We… — Bill Hopkins Copy Share Image
“ When I started writing Forest Life, I was suicidal and drunk because I had lost someone I love to a tragedy.… — Shane Crash Copy Share Image
“The movement of descent and discovery begins at the moment you consciously become dissatisfied with life. Contrary to most professional opinion, this… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly,… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness?… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
I was battling depression, went through a really hard time in my marriage, and I used to cry myself to sleep. I… — Maureen McCormick Copy Share Image
In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
