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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the…
— Dainin Katagiri
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If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off…
— Bill Maher
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Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all…
— Henri Nouwen
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We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history…
— Thomas Cahill
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I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.
— Shirley MacLaine
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Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to…
— George Saunders
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I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what…
— John Travolta
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The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
— Eckhart Tolle
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