Long time Quote by Susan Lenzkes

“Why do deprivation, adversity, scarcity, and suffering often produce the best character qualities in us while prosperity, ease, and abundance often produce the worst?…

— Bianca Olthoff

“The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you…

— Sue Augustine

“A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.”

— Alain de Botton

“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“If a specific thought has created a large portion of our suffering (for the last hour or 10 years), then we will be much…

— Noah Elkrief

“What has been long neglected cannot be restored immediately. Ills that have been accumulating for a long time cannot be cleared away immediately. One…

— Thomas Cleary

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of lack in our lives, causing us to…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness the effervescence…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The more adversity we suffer in life, the more we savor the brief, rare periods of complete happiness and abandon. Those moments when everything-taste,…

— Juliana Buhring

“It takes the fuel away from your endless, driving self-criticism. You will eventually be able to see more clearly that some things in life…

— Mark Williams

“At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had…

— William Styron