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
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
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“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
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
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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
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated 'Proof' in the early 1990s, Mr.… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
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I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression.… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
The hardest part of my entire three-year recovery has been knowing that my parents, my brothers, were suffering through this burden of… — Kyle Carpenter Copy Share Image
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The repeated requests for us to 'wait,' and 'wait,' and 'wait' while our people are suffering, while our people are besieged, while… — Riyad Mansour Copy Share Image
Harvard University researchers found that women at high risk of heart disease who had a tablespoon of peanut butter five or more… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
When we live in our own privileged little bubble, it is convenient to pretend that all is well with the world, that… — Chinelo Okparanta Copy Share Image
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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
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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
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One can understand the politics of that at this moment. It's an effort to buy time for a constituency of workers who… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Some people think that I don't go through hardship at all, hardship is having to fake a smile every day so they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it is almost an ordeal, which would make us… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Daniel's face-- the way it had been bathed in violet light when he'd carried her home this morning-- appeared before her eyes.… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
![“This [worldly suffering] is indeed the result of a flawed-vision. When this flawed-vision goes away, the world will be seen “As it is”. By sitting with the ‘Experienced Person’ whose flawed-vision is gone, our flawed-vision will go away. Nothing else will make it go away.” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef3/dada-bhagwan-31_spiritual_this-worldly-suffering-is-indeed-the-res_795148.jpg)
![“Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].” quote by Sylvia Boorstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/618/sylvia-boorstein-7241_pain_pain-is-inevitable-lives-come-with-pain_2405745.png)
