In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it… — Adalbert Stifter Copy Share Image
“He watched the pain's unsummoned appearance with a cold, detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again. He waited… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“This is the immediate prospect after restoration to Palestine of the people who rebelled against the Most High, and rejected His Son,… — Dalton Lifsey Copy Share Image
“The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No one is alone in their troubles; there is always someone else thinking, rejoicing, or suffering in the same way, and that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“There is something strange about agony; the memory of it can be terribly short-lived when the contrast of revival and a pretty… — Ronald Everett Capps Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I grieve to leave Thornfield: I love Thornfield - I love it, because I have lived in it a full and delightful… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“But little or great, suffering accepted and offered to Our Lord produces peace and serenity. When it is not accepted, the soul… — Francis Fernandez Copy Share Image
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity,… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it;… — Kenneth Roberts Copy Share Image
The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
“Once, an elderly general practitioner consulted me because of his severe depression. He could not overcome the loss of his wife who… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
Making a film is like raising a child. You have to be there every step of the way, guide it, provide for… — Nicholas Ozeki Copy Share Image
The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“I ended up going into this big art historical argument.' [Barry Blinderman] invoked, for example, Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim altarpiece, painted in the… — Cynthia Carr Copy Share Image
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Being vegan truly is the secret to my life's joy and peace. I feel physically and spiritually better than I could have… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to… — John Gerstner Copy Share Image
“And pain is relative; My particulars may be "better" of "worse" than the patient next to me, but individually our biological framework… — Gail Griffith Copy Share Image
The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Far too many Americans are suffering needlessly from type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, and mental health conditions as a result of artificial and… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
“Love Hurts. I daresay there’s two or three poems, six novels and at least twelve songs on the subject. That’s how the… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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