Change agent Quote by Ann Voscamp

“How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with…

— Ann Voskamp

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness”

— Neal Shusterman

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.”

— Neal Shusterman

“By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we…

— Sharon Salzberg

“The restoration of joy is a daily matter. We live in a world that wants to kill our joy! It wants to rob us…

— Gary Rohrmayer

“It is one thing to accept that one is powerless to stop the suffering in the world, but quite another to benefit from what…

— David Liss

“In the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with…

— Neil Gaiman

“Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.”

— Peter Ackroyd

“Pain and peace were in harmony. I will never understand how suffering and joy can coexist beautifully.”

— Emily Foreman

“The greatest joy of the oppressed people, is enjoying his freedom while, the greatest misfortune of the oppressors is to suffer for the joy…

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»

“One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the…

— Aldous Huxley

“Suffering is the sorrow of joy.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita