“Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.” WorldFirstsLooksArtHappensEarthSufferingStepsCreativityTasksCreatorFirst StepsKinderGod Image Author:Elizabeth O'Connor
“What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing the potential of the human race.” GivingMindHumansImportantUseDreamEarthSufferingEnergyChallengesRaceMagicWillingStaringHuman RaceOur TimeCynicismMediocreOur DreamsWhat's ImportantAdvancingEntropyMediocre Minds Author:Dan Pallotta
“On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.” WayEarthSufferingCrossesThieves Author:Pio of Pietrelcina
“The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain, I have room for the pain of others. Only then can I be transformed into joy. As I heal, the Earth heals.” WholeEarthPainJoySufferingUniverseMy OwnRoomsHealingLetting GoHealTransformedDiminish Author:Christiane Northrup
“Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.” PeopleThinkingWantMindPersonsSelfEarthPastRememberSufferingChoicesViewsAchieveCapableMirrorsWorthyDrivingLimitationSubconsciousUnlimitedDeservingFiltersSyndromesSubconscious MindDysfunctionPast ExperiencesRear ViewThinking DifferentlyRear View Mirror Author:Hal Elrod
“I have known sorrow - therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth And know not laughter's worth. I have known laughter - therefore I May sorrow with you far more tenderly Than those who never guess how sad a thing Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.” KnowsHeartMaySeemsEarthSufferingKnownLaughingSorrowLaughterMerriment Author:Theodosia Garrison
“There will be no more danger, pollution or destruction, none of these things that we suffer from so much today. Everything will be heavenly, beautiful and natural, the way it was when God first created the earth.” WayFirstsTodayEarthBeautifulSufferingNaturalDangerDestructionHeavenlyPollutionGod First Author:David Berg
“Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.” HumansImportantEarthSufferingAnimalSlaveryInnocentSavingPlusAnimal RightsEcologySaving Animals Author:Adela Popescu
“Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.” EarthSufferingSidesTearsLaughter Author:Alice Walker
“Do something nice for somebody. Do something nice for God. Do something nice for the earth - and don't expect anything in return or you will suffer.” EarthSufferingNiceReturnYogaKarmaKarma Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz
“That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.” PeopleWantHumansIdeasEarthSufferingHuman BeingsCrimeGenuineReasonableFrighteningToleratePlague Author:Richard Carrier
“No one can suffer for all time. No one will spend all his days on this earth in suffering. Every action brings its own result, and one gets one's opportunities accordingly.” ActionEarthSufferingOpportunityResultsAll Time Book:The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi Source: The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi
“I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.” WorldMayMeanDoeRealityEarthJobsFacesSufferingNationsCommunityPayEconomyEnvironmentFateGenerationsDangerHigherMembersAccountsProfoundClimateClimate ChangeHeavyProducersConsumersGlobal WarmingInvestorsOur EnvironmentDinosaursNew GenerationTollsBetter JobsAdjusting Author:Eileen Claussen
“They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they had rejected the doctrine of suffering as man's metaphysical fate, they proclaimed man's right to the pursuit of happiness and were determined to establish on earth the conditions required for man's proper existence, by the "unaided" power of their intellect.” MenMindTwoSoulBodyEarthSufferingExistenceFateAtheismConditionsIntellectDeterminedPursuitDoctrineRejectedMetaphysicalPursuit Of HappinessDamnationImpotenceDichotomy Author:Ayn Rand
“Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.” WorldWholeLightEarthSufferingNationsGenerationsTreeMankindColorBrokenPromiseBlessingRedSickSacredFilledLongingSevenCirclesSeparationSelfishnessIndianNativeNative AmericanBroken PromisesNative AmericaTree Of LifeNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative CountrySick World Author:Crazy Horse
“At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.” WorldEndsWholeHomeEarthSufferingFatherJesusPerfectGoneGardenEmbraceEastWanderDecayEdenArrivingEast Of Eden Author:Timothy Keller
“Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.” PeopleMenWorldGivingMindBelieveBookSoulEarthBeautifulLawSufferingWaterNatureChanceViolenceTreeFlowerRainUniversalMadDefeatCloudsMeaningfulCrueltySensibleSooner Or LaterAbsurdityConvincingLaws Of NatureFoliage Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva
“Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.” MenGivingBelieveLongDoeEarthMovingSpiritSufferingEvilFatherBearsSorrowRaisesBlessedBreatheSteadfastRaise Up Author:Homer
“I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.” BelieveCountryEarthSufferingEvilCivilizationRussiaMiserableEmpiresBarbarismAffirmingExaggerating Author:Marquis de Custine
“Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience it's not even discussable.” PeopleEarthSufferingConditionsPlanetsBuddhismEcstasyPlanet Earth Author:Frederick Lenz
“The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.” LightEarthLastsSpiritSufferingComedyEventsBuddhismEternalTragedyPlanesComes And Goes Author:Frederick Lenz
“Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.” PeopleKnowsBelieveLongHelpingProblemCareEarthSufferingAsksWaitingReligiousTalkingDependsBlessingAngelRoundsDon't BelieveDon't CareFashionableTrendyHoveringTinkerbell Author:Nancy Pickard
“For me, passion means whatever a person is willing to suffer for.'Apostolic passion,' therefore, is a deliberate, intentional choice to live for the worship of Jesus in the nations. It has to do with being committed to the point of death to spreading His glory. It's the quality of those who are on fire for Jesus, who dream of the whole earth being covered with the Glory of the Lord.” MeanPersonsWholeDreamEarthSufferingChoicesPassionJesusNationsQualityLordFireWillingWorshipGloryCommittedCoveredDeliberateApostolic Author:Floyd McClung