Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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I am a conservative. I have said I don't know how many times, conservatism is an intellectual pursuit. And by that I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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A man who has been assiduous in acquiring the fruits of love will not cease loving even if he suffers a thousand… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
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Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
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By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
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Science is now documenting that it's not the objects of meditation that are important, it's the process of paying attention to them… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Suffering is seldom an item on our list of requests to the Lord. But when it crosses our path and we are… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
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Swisher sweet, roll up. smoke the pain away. as my mind wonders, thoughts of a better day. smoke hits my lungs and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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“O the ultimate evil in the temporal world is deeper than any specific evil, such as hatred, or suffering, or death! The… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
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Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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