Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“He was without any comforts of God — no feeling that God loved him — no feeling that God pitied him —… — Robert Murray McCheyne Copy Share Image
He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
One of God's central qualities is compassion, a word that in Hebrew is related to the word for "womb." Not only is… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“People are suffering from internal pain, external pain, trividha taap [pain from all sides]. What is there to achieve after the internal… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The suffering person faces choices. She can recoil in anger and despair against God. Or she can accept the trial as an… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Only here is suffering really suffering. Not in the way that those who suffer here are to be ennobled in some other… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“But now, this time, finally, he felt the anguish and pain thrusting out from deep inside, consciously, knowingly; an emotional agony boiled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Work or suffering found her listless and dejected, powerles and repining; but gaiety expanded her butterfly's wings, lit up their gold-dust and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering,… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
No parent, family member, or friend should be told that treatment isn't available for their loved one. By establishing a dedicated and… — Kim Reynolds Copy Share Image
Christopher Kennedy Lawford's new book Recover to Live will be a force with the power to educate as well as motivate transformational… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“[Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings… — Robert Murray McCheyne Copy Share Image
Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body… — Saadi Copy Share Image
When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering. According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Sometimes love means having to forgive even when it hurts, its about letting go and not looking back, its about holding tight… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image