I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love.… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I owe it all to words and art, the peace that came with a flicker of a pen silenced the suffering; eased… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“When a soul in sin, under the impetus of grace, turns to God, there is penance; but when a soul in sin… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the… — Carolyn McCarthy Copy Share Image
I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, 'Help me,' and wanting to slide down in the seat of… — David Muir Copy Share Image
ACT psychology is a psychology of the normal. A lot of the psychologies that are out there are built on the psychology… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
When I meet children and people who suffer, when they mention any kind of pain, emotional pain, physical pain, I know what… — Phan Thi Kim Phuc Copy Share Image
There are people who are destined to embrace endless pain and suffering, and there are people who desire to dream. Everybody dreams,… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Since this is a hard and sad truth for the telling; those whom nature has sacrificed to her ends--her mysterious ends that… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain," said Matthew. "It comes when it comes, and we… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One wears one's mind out in study, and yet has more mind with which to study. One gives away one's heart in… — Milton Steinberg Copy Share Image
Here then is a great # truth . In the # pain , the # agony , and the # heroic endeavors… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Shorter believes that psychosomatic illnesses (such as leg paralysis at the turn of the twentieth century or multiple personality disorder at the… — Ethan Watters Copy Share Image
Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety,… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ...… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall… — Plato Copy Share Image
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My heart is broken this day. My soul cries out in agony, but I recognize my pain for what it really is.… — Jeff Gunzel Copy Share Image
“The suffering in Boston, as horrifying as it is, is largely abstract to a nation that has, for the most part, never… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training… — Bhai Sahib Singh Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number… — Carl I. Hagen Copy Share Image