“Do I have to do everything myself?" The cry was a soul-freezing mixture of rage and torment. "Ain’t there no one to… — Walter Kaylin Copy Share Image
“Finally, it is wrong to say that "nothing" is more basic to the identity of the church than suffering. Nothing is more… — Keith A. Mathison Copy Share Image
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
“Regurgitating stories of suffering seems to be part of the process to access any kind of support, whether it be a bursary,… — Pear Nuallak Copy Share Image
Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping… — Pearl S. Buck 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
“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
“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
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
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
“ '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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
...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 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
“Wherever suffering raised its ugly head, these angels of compassion could be found—in a home, in a relationship, or when mankind decided… — Don Bradley Copy Share Image
Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It's to give meaning… — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“As soon as you are filled with awareness, the first thing that will happen is you will begin to see misery, the… — Osho Copy Share Image
Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Admiral Nelson won the great Battle of Trafalgar against the French during the Napoleonic Wars. The Viscount of Camperdown, who also won… — J. Ligon Duncan III Copy Share Image
