“And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our… — Julie Summers Copy Share Image
I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Yes, God loves you this very day and always. He is not waiting to love you until you have overcome your weaknesses… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“ 'Shoot the wounded ... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they… — Lynn Dove Copy Share Image
“People who go through a heavy experience like that are changed men, like it or not,” he said. “They change for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they… — Julie Klam Copy Share Image
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable… — Jennifer DeLucy Copy Share Image
One very powerful and effective way to work with this tendency to push away pain and hold on to pleasure is the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“That villainous crew- greed, infatuation, jealousy, arrogance, and pride haunts the mind only so long as the Divine does not take up… — Tulsidas Copy Share Image
“We make a picture," he said, "of how we want the world to be, and most of the time it isn't like… — M.L.N. Hanover Copy Share Image
I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit… — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share Image
I must admit that I do have a particular soft spot for the character of the chameleon-trickster goddess Ris in Dreams of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all… — Audrey Hepburn 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… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
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
“The dreams are not torture. They often begin with an elation unlike any I have experience in life. The anguish comes on… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
“You see the suffering of children all the time nowadays. Wars and famines are played out before us in our living rooms,… — Mary Lawson 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
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
The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls… — Gary Zukav 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
“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
“We all want to be normal. Life, even normal life, is arduous, demanding, and ultimately threatening. We all have to deal with… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“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
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
“Thankfully, Coach had taught me a way of embracing the pain. He called that overwhelming rust of hurt 'The Moment of No… — Usain Bolt 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
“There is a certain kind of man who is forever searching. He wanders from place to place, he looks hard into the… — Tara Conklin Copy Share Image
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