Adversity Quote by Bell Hooks

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

— Bill Watterson

“Life does not personally punish people or seek to cause suffering; it simply moves. It is only when we claim life should look this…

— HeatherAsh Amara

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is loves opposite

— Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary,…

— Philip Yancey

“Until we heal the root cause of our suffering, and awaken to our true nature, our inherent confusion will continue to manifest itself in…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

— Edward Abbey

“The Buddha was not full of shit when he said the cause of suffering could be uprooted and that you can put an end…

— Brad Warner

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

— Oswald Chambers

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the…

— Jack Kerouac

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause…

— Vera Brittain

“But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though…

— Gustave Flaubert