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While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.


Joseph B. Wirthlin

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DOUGLAS ADAMS I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone ...
DIONNE WARWICK By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is ...
DANIEL KEYES Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD What a wonderful world that we can live together in harmony of peace!
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It’s worth all the aches,
All the tears,
the mistakes…
COLLEEN HOOVER A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!
DARREN SHAN A wretched soul bruised with adversity,We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;But were we burdened with...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Rather than letting them die of starvation, of dehydration, of freezing, of sickness, of loneliness,...
MARIANA FULGER We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by thro...
OSCAR WILDE A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that mel...
HUBERT SELBY JR. The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and unca...
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DANIEL AYALON Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordia...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom
ROXE At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto Twitte...
GERMANY KENT Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
MO YAN We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety...
ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, ...
ANDREW COHEN Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and...
EDWARD HIRSCH We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
DALAI LAMA We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
DALAI LAMA XIV I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We smile with pain in our hearts. We walk with blisters on our feet. We think scarred with the memor...
ANGEL FLORES 1164At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto so...
GERMANY KENT At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social...
GERMANY KENT May we incorporate into our own lives the divine principles which he [Joseph Smith] so beautifully t...
THOMAS S. MONSON Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
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BILL WILLINGHAM I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we...
GODFREY REGGIO Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
ENGLISH PROVERB It is difficult for intellect, technology, and peace to coexist. Not because peace is static where t...
ANDREA SCHOLER It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and h...
BIBLE The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, lig...
MOTHER ANGELICA Men die, but sorrow never dies; The crowding years divide in vain, And the wide world is knit ...
SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK At this moment, all of us share the pain and anguish of this terrible event. We are devastated.
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GESHE KELSANG GYATSO The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dag...
NORMAN COUSINS God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
SAMANTHA SMITH While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to le...
JOSH MCDOWELL We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.
CECILE DE FRANCE You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN While we give GM a 'B' for effort, this news is not as compelling as it sounds.
SHELLY LOMBARD We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
CHE GUAVARA More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Th...
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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with h...
HARRY TRUMAN We make war that we may live in peace.
ARISTIDES ("THE JUST") We make war that we may live in peace.
ARISTOTLE We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of ...
EDWARD ABBEY After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a politica...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON we
sat there
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in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is k...
SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY We pledge to do our best to win medals while making efforts to deepen exchanges with athletes of oth...
FUMIE SUGURI A craving for company can yield the surprising discovery that the companionship we yearn for is with...
GINA GREENLEE We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.
ERIC ALTERMAN In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food...
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AMANDLA STENBERG We must remember that Life comes from Love.... Because God's Love.. we still live in this world.... ...
MEZZ DARKTERROR I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and lov...
MICHAEL FRANTI After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad,...
BETHANY DILLON Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that ...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather tha...
MIMI KENNEDY Life on earth is temporary.
May we pursue peace and live in harmony with one another.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day - very much such a swee...
HERMAN MELVILLE In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasu...
STEVE LEVEEN In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.
HAMZA YUSUF In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointm...
DAVID A. BEDNAR We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.
ISSEY MIYAKE We are not preparing for the world we live in - we are preparing for the world we find ourselves in.
MICHAEL MABEE We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consi...
PAUL AUSTER If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We live in a world with so many opinions and so little substance.
RIAAN VAN WYK For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the diseas...
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DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Four specters haunt the Poor / Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcis...
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
SOREN KIERKEGAARD One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We do not want war for oil, which will leave a trail of blood of innocent lives in Iraq and of Ameri...
BIANCA JAGGER Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each ye...
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B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
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