Art of life Quote by David Rieff

“...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high…

— Orhan Pamuk

“The point of the term “suffering-focused ethics” is ... not to be a novel or impressive contribution to ethical theorizing, but instead to serve…

— Magnus Vinding

“The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the pale of divine…

— R.C. Sproul

“There are many religions seeking to bring comfort and happiness to humanity, just as there are many treatments for a particular disease. All religions…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Suffering happens when we expect life to be something more and different than what it is in the present moment. When we let go…

— Kim Eng

“many people have died for their beliefs; it’s actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”

— Christopher Paolini

“Suffering is universal; how we react to suffering is individual. Suffering can...be a strengthening and purifying experience combined with faith, or it can be…

— Robert D. Hales

We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this instead of…

— Claudia Llosa

“Peaceful death is really an essential human right, more essential perhaps even than the right to vote or the right to justice; it is…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and…

— Shauna Niequist

“(In response to 'In the end moral and political truths have to proved on the body.[ ie put one's body on the line to…

— Pat Barker

“One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of…

— Aleksandar Hemon