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A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
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Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow; it will put on patience as a vestment and will endure… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“But soon," he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, "I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There… — Mickey Newbury Copy Share Image
“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs;… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good… — Solomon Schechter Copy Share Image
There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you… — Sonita Alizadeh Copy Share Image
“This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“… It was the knowing that there had been a happier time, a place of joy and peace and security, that made… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The night I tried to kill myself You came into my room and wept For me. The beauty of your longing Held… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
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David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“You will especially not find anyone who speaks bitterly to you. All the 'diseases' [worldly suffering] remains due to the sweetness. Bitterness… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I shall live forever. And I don't mean in a metaphorical sense. I don't mean I'll live forever in the hearts and… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Our scars reveal who we are. The fact that we have experienced profound suffering in life—the fact that we carry what may… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
In the Duat, Anubis looked as he always had, with his tousled dark hair and lovely brown eyes, but I’d never seen… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“first is the sacred truth of suffering; the second the truth of the origin of suffering—that is, lust and desire; the third… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
I lost my father when I was four, so maybe that was always in the background. Losing my brother kicked it into… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
What did people say abt God: God is a supreme being who arises in the time of trouble, distress, agony, danger and… — Akamnonu Daniel Copy Share Image
If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
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