My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings,… — Albert Sabin Copy Share Image
“All these people are suffering without the tools to end their own suffering. And we who have the tools refuse to do… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Is it possible, that is, to love God no matter what? Job, through three tough tests—the loss of his possessions and children,… — Sidney Greidanus Copy Share Image
Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Since I have escaped the harshness of the economic bounds of poverty, I have stayed very connected to it spiritually. I reside… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Becoming aware of the intense suffering of billions of animals, and of our own participation in that suffering, can bring up painful… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
“Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unhappiness in the human world, however, do… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When we endure our own tragedies or trials, most of us develop some empathy and compassion for others who are suffering. The… — William Hudson O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This worldly life is an ocean of unhappiness. It is just beyond comprehension how people have found happiness in it. Just as… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that might have been less… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression,… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed?… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor?… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For those who praise God and say “God is good,” or, ‘I’m so blessed,” when you get what YOU want, try praising… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don't know‚ but when I'm not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life… — Abby Wambach Copy Share Image
Trump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love for life, and fear death. We must decide whether… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Global Family Day provides a way in which every man, woman, and child in the United States can help to reduce suffering… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“The God who is with us is the God who forsakes us (Mark 15:34).[...] Before God and with him we live without… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image