Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Hardships are the Lord's greatest blessings to the believer. Without them we would love the Lord only for what He does for… — Jody Hedlund Copy Share Image
“My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When the fat lady comes out to sing, we don't know how she feels that day. We don't know if she's suffering… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Consider that the Holy Spirit lives in the spiritual father, and He will tell you what to do. But if you think… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
In a world suffering from mental stress, yoga promises calm. In a distracted world, yoga creates focus, creates concentration. In a world… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide?… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering.… — Kathryn Lindskoog Copy Share Image
You’re not weak. Your life is not defined by a letter grade, a dress size, your sexuality or anything else. You have… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart.… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“It’s not okay,” I tell her. This gets her attention; it’s not what she was expecting. “You don’t have to be okay.”… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I feel like I've gone through stages with the industry; when I first started showing it was during the time of the… — Roksanda Ilincic Copy Share Image
I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“In the Garden story, good and evil are found on the same tree, not in separate orchards. Good and evil give meaning… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image