Unchosen Suffering Quotes

#1. Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

Bell Hooks

#2. The whole world is sick ... we've all got this pathetic need to be seen. We're a bunch of fucking toddlers trying to get attention.

Jess Walter

#3. I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

Ron Atkinson

#4. You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.

Neale Donald Walsch

#5. Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

Richard J. Foster

#6. I beg him in whispers to come back. And then I roar.

K. Webster

#7. For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, This is my voice.

Laura Benanti

#8. I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

Padma Lakshmi

#9. Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master ... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Charles Bukowski

#10. My uncle" is the natives' usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity in the body of some member of the cat tribe.

Jules Verne

#11. In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

Samuel Johnson

#12. All the stuff that was important or interesting about me was what I couldn't share.

Jojo Moyes

#13. Awake my soul and my spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I believe that there are dark and difficult days ahead, and you won't be playing for an increase in company dividens - you will be playing for the survival of a nation, and if you fail, it will mean the end of the world you know. You will not suffer alone -

Wilbur Smith

#15. If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.

Chris LeDoux