If we develop concern for other people's welfare, share other people's suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“My friends, don't idolize hardship. What you idolize is what your heart will look for and what your heart looks for is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“No one wants to suffer. But much as we would all like to live a totally happy life, suffering is an inescapable… — Richard G. Causton Copy Share Image
We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The desire of Lain Americans to live in just and egalitarian societies is too strong; it cannot be destroyed overnight. There were… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“If you can’t forget about all the great pains you’ve endured, as many of us can’t, at least take some time to… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers… — Edwin O. Reischauer Copy Share Image
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I think the twenty-first century happened, basically. That this century started on 9/11. And basically, it's been a century of counter reaction… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means… — Kwame Copy Share Image
Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." . . . At all times,… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for… — Miguel Indurain Copy Share Image
“If you know how to make good use of the mud, you can grow beautiful lotuses. If you know how to make… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to… — Poul Hartling Copy Share Image
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it.… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
“I hate and have always hated the word therapist. I detest the idea that my work, if it is work at all,… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never really be helped. It is not… — George Ohsawa Copy Share Image
The source of their motivation ranges from what you might expect - from the seeking of money and publicity, to those who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think where you get into trouble - for instance the mixing of sex and violence - is when you're telling an… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
“Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“We do not honestly know if we have been here before or if we will come back again. However, what we do… — karma yeshe rabgye Copy Share Image
A shot to kill the pain. A pill to drain the shame. A purge to end the gain. A cut to break… — Patience Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in… — Arthur Plotnik Copy Share Image
If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now he understood. After a while, pain simply stopped. It was as though your mind was able to create a firewall beyond… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves… — Tim Ward Copy Share Image