You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. —Jeannette Rankin More about this quote Tags: war winning earthquakes natural disasters Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Say yes when nobody asked. —Lao proverb More about this quote Tags: yes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: humanity presence relationship compassion equality darkness healer wounded similarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People should worry about each other. Because worry is just love in its worst form. But it's still love. —Simon Gray More about this quote Tags: love worry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God has . . . ordered things that we may learn to bear one another's burdens; for there is no man without his faults, none without his burden. None is sufficient unto himself; none is wise in himself; therefore, we must support one another, comfort, help, teach, and advise one another. —Thomas à Kempis More about this quote Tags: God others wisdom help comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: others good generosity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not run toward pain, but do not run from it, either. Pain is your guide. Pain is what guides a person in every serious undertaking. Unless an aching longing and passion arises in someone to get or achieve something, he will never get or achieve it. —Andrew Harvey More about this quote Tags: power will pain achievement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. —Patti Smith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: truth misery daylight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: religion faith Christianity cards Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must travel in the direction of our fear. —John Berryman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them, but can only wait breathless in dread of their going? —Anne Morrow Lindbergh More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin. —Leonard Cohen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world, but leads us deeper into it. —Henri J. M. Nouwen More about this quote Tags: spirituality life depth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email