“Long you must suffer, knowing not what, until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you. Then… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I still partially suffer from the delusion that if you explain things logically and systematically, most people will abandon their emotional prejudices… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I visited Jerusalem and the West Bank back in 2008, I was shocked by how individual Palestinians and whole Palestinian communities… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“God wants us to choose to love him freely, even when that choice involves pain, because we are committed to him, not… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“It’s a pity we cannot put an old head on young shoulders, or you could be wise, too. But someday you will… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“An opportunity lost may have motivated us to find a satisfying alternative. Adversity or suffering may have taught us certain important skills.… — Nan Merrick Phifer Copy Share Image
I used to be squeamish a long time ago and I guess, secretly squeamish, no... but I have a huge respect for… — Fiona Wood Copy Share Image
As for the bitter herbs… To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is… — Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger Copy Share Image
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“What is the cause of suffering in the human being? Why is it that human beings have such a difficult time putting… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“TRUTH #2: Desire is the root of suffering. It is the desire to achieve, to live, to make things tolerable and pleasant,… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“October Fullness” Little by little, and also in great leaps, life happened to me, and how insignificant this business is. These veins… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“According to the teachings of Buddha, there are three causes of suffering. These three “poisons”, as they are called, bring aversion, craving,… — Gabriel Shaw Copy Share Image
“distress and anguish cometh upon you. 1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me… — Better Bible Bureau Copy Share Image
Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
“Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lincoln's story confounds those who see depression as a collection of symptoms to be eliminated. But it resonates with those who see… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
“Everyone saw you lose it,' I whisper, doing my best to mentally block the pain like I have countless times before. It's… — Rebecca Yarros Copy Share Image
Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
"Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
