Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Some empathy must be learned and then imagined, by perceiving the suffering of others and translating it into one's own experience of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“True power comes from true love. Only destruction and torment can come from hatred. I release the pain within through constructive and… — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's… — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
We could make this work, you know." "I will knee you in the groin." "I could give you a night you will… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there… — John Legend Copy Share Image
If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits,… — Suharto Copy Share Image
“Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a… — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death.… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Then suddenly, months of patience suffering gave way to anger. His heart cried out savagely to its maker, insisting upon being heard.… — Sylvia Waugh Copy Share Image
To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it… — Dennis Stock Copy Share Image
Suffering, if you're a Christian, suffering is a part of life. And it's not a bad thing, it is an essential thing… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives.… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We suffer but little from suffering itself; but from the manner wherein we accept it overwhelming sorrow may spring. We are wrong… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We hide death as if it were shameful and dirty. We see in it only horror, meaninglessness, useless struggle and suffering, an… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering… — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
“Arobynn hit her-her ribs, her jaw, her gut. And her face. Again and again and again. Careful blows, meant to inflict as… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“With God nothing is ever lost, so every experience, even the most painful ones, can mold our souls for eternity. People who… — Evan Howard Copy Share Image
“How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the indulgence of… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
“His face wears the blows delivered by life. Half his pain lies in what he omits from his story; the other half… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Copy Share Image
