When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion,… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
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Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries,… — Dan John Copy Share Image
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Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always… — Eglantyne Jebb Copy Share Image
God Himself heals the proud. This means that inner sorrows (by which pride is healed) are sent to us by God, for… — Ambrose of Optina Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Romans 8 contains a powerful theology of suffering. There’s the groaning of those dying without hope, and in contrast, the groaning of… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“How many of us suffered to death? How many of them gained more wealth? How many of us mourned? How many of… — Rixa White Copy Share Image
Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We all suffer from anxiety at one stage or another, we all worry, and we all feel like we're not good enough… — The Last Skeptik Copy Share Image
We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
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Whether the Republicans intentions are good or evil - I pretty much assume that they're evil - but no matter what, man,… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their… — Josephine Bakhita Copy Share Image
Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows my professional history has known I've gone through a gazillion managers and agents or whatever. I'm like, "This doesn't… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
“Was it a strain so heavy that L's back curved under all its weight? Was it an agony so terrible as to… — M Copy Share Image
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“Most of the unhappiness and the sometimes-severe depression I've dealt with throughout my life have come not from the losses and injuries… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on… — Fatou Bensouda Copy Share Image
This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I deplore the horrible crime as child murder…no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“You see, what I want is life. A real life, full of moments of joy, of anguish, of irritation, of fun. A… — Gemma Malley Copy Share Image
To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Musically, there's probably nothing better than, after spending weeks or months of grinding on a lyric or a song, when you play… — Five for Fighting Copy Share Image
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“[He taught her] that life is interwoven with suffering. That in every life, without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we will age,… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
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