Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

I am the freest author in the world.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

Syllables govern the world.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.