Celibacy Quote by Samuel Johnson

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness…

— Gautama Buddha

Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“An absence of mistrust is not enough; there must be a weariness of mistrusting, and, as it were, courage must be impatient with the…

— Stendhal

“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections;…

— Herman Melville

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy.…

— Ted Dekker

Nothing is to be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one,& preferring another. That is a Punishment which you…

— Jane Austen

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

— Gautama Buddha

…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…

— Anonymous

It is a sweetness or pleasure that if you are without it, life becomes a thing of worries and of pain.

— Ibn Al Qayyim