Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“But among the things readiest to hand to which you shall turn, let there be these two: One is that things do… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The principal cause of suffering is craving. Once craving is eliminated, much suffering will be eliminated. Still more suffering will be eliminated… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Millions of people around the world suffer daily from the harmful health and environmental impacts caused by indoor cooking fires and inefficient… — Nancy Sutley Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for… — Homer Copy Share Image
“The night that our friend's wife died, my brokenhearted husband called his mother: "What do I say?"... There is nothing to say.… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to… — Princess Marie Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Each creature walks a perfect earth. Each one gets the suffering and comfort that he needs. When ALL cravings and needs are… — Zeina Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Self-compassion encourages mindfulness, or noticing your feelings without judgment; self-kindness, or talking to yourself in a soothing way; and common humanity, or… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Quibbling over the definition of genocide does nothing but help obscure the long history of vicious racism and undeniable suffering of Indigenous… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
“At any rate, they were strange fellows, these bohemians. They lounged around doing nothing and told you they were working; they were… — Dezső Kosztolányi Copy Share Image
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I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
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If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness,… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
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Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“God uses no magic wand to simply wave bad things into nonexistence. The sins that he remits, he remits by making them… — Stephen E. Robinson Copy Share Image
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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