Victor Hugo Quotes
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.Victor Hugo
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
M. Night Shyamalan -
It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
Mahmoud Abbas -
Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
Pamela Stephenson -
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael -
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells
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Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
Walter Kaufmann -
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
J. M. Coetzee -
For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
E. L. Doctorow -
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Walt Whitman -
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
Walter Kaufmann
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Every drop of rain that falls in Sahara Desert says it all It's a miracle. All God's creations great and small, the Golden Gate and the Taj Mahal That's a miracle. Test tube babies being born, mothers, fathers dead and gone It's a miracle.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
I'm not happy if I'm not doing some physical suffering, like going out on a bike ride or running. First, it's good for you. No. 2, it sort of clears my mind on a daily basis. And it's a job. My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering.
Lance Armstrong -
'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'
Malcolm Bradbury -
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
Eckhart Tolle -
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I felt very comfortable about myself when I was much heavier. I feel much better about myself from being fit.
Jeff Garlin -
Love is the foundation of all obedience.
Alexander MacLaren -
I want to be clear: The United States of America has done what we said we would do. That’s not to say that our work is complete.
Barack Obama -
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Jessamyn West -
You don't go to some other country and bash our president.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
Victor Hugo