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pain struggle adversity
I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it! Dean Karnazes
pain real book
Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all the little details, so that you feel as though you are enmeshed in Coley's brain: thinking her thoughts, feeling her confusion, anger, and, in the end, pain. I just don't think it's possible to read this book and not identify with Coley in some way. Amber Benson
pain sick religion
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action. Amartya Sen
pain mean wings
Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you worry about disaster all of the time, that's what you are going to get," Fertility says. Chuck Palahniuk
pain war nice
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.
pain eye fighting
I'm not the person I once was. I have Thorn now, and... I'm not fighting for myself anymore....It makes a difference....I used to think you were a fool to keep risking your life as you have...I know better now. I understand...why. I understand...' His [Murtagh] eyes widened and his grimace relaxed, as if his pain was forgotten, and an inner light seemed to illuminate his features. 'I understand-we understand. Christopher Paolini
pain back-again again-and-again
We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again. Christopher Moore
pain heart boys
Little-boy love...the cleanest pain I've ever known. Love without desire, conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once. Where does it go? Why, in all their experiments, did the Magi never try to capture that purity in a bottle? Perhaps they couldn't.
pain artist people
What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you. Angelina Jolie
philosophical games good-years
You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that. Steve Nash
philosophical years billions
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die. Jostein Gaarder
philosophical men organization
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Radhanath Swami
philosophical
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. Thomas Aquinas
philosophical thoughtful love-is
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
philosophical spirit said
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
philosophical evil catholic
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
philosophical demand reason
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
philosophical reading book
Beware of the person of one book.
space poet scientist
while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time. Vladimir Nabokov
space people manhattan
I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan. Paul Auster
space people world
People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world. Natalie Babbitt
space silence shining
Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth, and we are introduced to the mysteries of the deep, the call of the within, the infinite radiance of a splendor that time and space forgot Ken Wilber
space interviews virtue
Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space, Krista Tippett
space creative comedian
I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian. Kevin Pollak
space sailing world
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness. Mark Twain
space sublime lines
Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between. Mary Roach
space finals decrease
Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space. Natascha McElhone