“I thought of my friends of the outer world, and of how they all would go on living their lives in total… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. The principal enemies of human happiness are inordinate desire—the fantasy of… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Before, as I walked about, either on my hunting, or for viewing the country, the anguish of my soul at my condition… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
With the Special Ops Warrior Foundation's help, we put 266 kids through college last year. And that's what keeps me going. I'll… — David Goggins Copy Share Image
That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Especially to be noted is the intense social and even political character of many of the experiences of suffering listed in the… — Michael J. Gorman Copy Share Image
“She promised new, tantalizing diversions. She whispered words of raw, intense pleasure the likes of which he’d never experienced. He was intrigued.… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does… — Nesta Helen Webster Copy Share Image
“At midnight on the Emperor’s pavement flit Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit, Nor storm disturbs, flames begotten of… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Guided by His wisdom, strong in His strength, there maybe for you struggle and suffering, the darkness and the storm. "The disciple… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“He sometimes allows something bad in our lives to prevent something far worse in our lives. That is a wondrous work of… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
Science is the engine of prosperity. All the prosperity we see around us is a byproduct of scientific inventions. And that's not… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We still have a strong commitment to our original mission, which is to protect and assist people who are suffering from the… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
“all the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I've worked with a lot of people who've gotten sober and sat with… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“Sin is misery, because it’s the perversion of our natures away from God. Sin deforms human life, which always leads to suffering.… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“When a physical illness or other adverse circumstance arises, humans tend to add to the problem by worrying and increasing the mental… — Doug "Ten" Rose Copy Share Image
We must also remember some of the key lessons of Scripture. In our weakness he is strong. He can use suffering to… — John H. Walton Copy Share Image
Loss of meaning is often part of the suffering that comes with physical loss, but it can also happen to people who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“I wish I could be with you all,' I responded, getting all worked up myself over someone I had almost entirely stopped… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised… He saw them toiling, saw them… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I feel there will be a time. A time when there will be no agony. I will never cry. There will come… — Aleena Yasin Copy Share Image
No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am in an endless journey towards an infinite route, only to find a real world of humanity. This thirst is eternal.… — G.M.B. Akash Copy Share Image
