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pain real power
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Charles Caleb Colton
pain age youth
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
pain shadow substance
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
pain shadow may
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
pain angel reflection
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.
pain memories vices
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
pain doors hands
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
pain hands years
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties? Charles Dickens
pain god-love accepting
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work. Charles Stanley
suffering-of-others imagination moral
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. Alexander McCall Smith
suffering-of-others people littles
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people. George C. Wallace
suffering-of-others space helping
There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on. Teju Cole
suffering-of-others indifference traitor
He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human. Saadi
suffering-of-others bears monsters
One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude. Susan Ertz
suffering-of-others suffering resignation
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. W. Somerset Maugham
true-power light evil
There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light. Eckhart Tolle
true-power voice long
True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence. Oriana Fallaci
true-power use true-happiness
True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant. Hrithik Roshan
true-power evil humanity
Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil. Pope Francis
true-power path standing
True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path. Elizabeth Gilbert
true-power our-world profound
The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society. Michael Crichton
true-power power-of-words shakers
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. Markus Zusak
true-power giving consensus
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power. Gloria Naylor
true-power
Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick) Sherrilyn Kenyon