If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“This is where he had ended up, lying on his back, trying to forget himself.” — Neil Walker Copy Share Image
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering. — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
You do not suffer from your beliefs. You suffer from your disbeliefs. If you have no hope inside of you, it's not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses. — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured. — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dreams would call to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“By suffering, one is shown a path to awareness. Along that path is where one discovers that he is truly born. By… — VD 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
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
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Suffering is real. To urge anything that dismisses it as ‘unreal’ is to mock the pain of another.” — Arun Shourie Copy Share Image
“Pain is the great equalizer, the cure to mental anguish, the antidote for a hopeful heart.” — David Estes Copy Share Image
What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“Some people think and say that we came here to suffer. Hmmmmmmm. I don’t think so.” — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that.” — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens. — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
