"An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman"
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"Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions."
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"I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me."
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"The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love."
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"The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit."
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"Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire."
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"I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life."
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"It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you."
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"Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings."
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"Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors."
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"Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved."
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"Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite."
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"When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows."
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"Despair is suffering without meaning."
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"We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering."
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"If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth."
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"The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them."
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"It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one"
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"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
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"Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues."
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