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misery
«What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.»
«When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.»
«To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
believing, correct, indifference, misery, natural history, placed
«To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Pride,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
comrades, contributing, misery, setting, shame, stone, take pride, The Building, unmerited
«Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
acknowledge, alleviation, encounter, in history, misery, periods, silencing, weep
«Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Misery,
Pain
| Keywords:
Call for help, diminishing, misery, spared
«Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery; in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
apart, christ, despair, Jesus, Jesus Christ, misery, vice
