"Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them."
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"You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it."
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"Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'."
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"Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal."
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"Happy the man who can count his sufferings."
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"Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever."
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"Attachment leads to suffering."
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"When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less."
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"We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within."
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"We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior."
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"What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope."
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"I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer."
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"If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison."
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"Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied."
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"Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant."
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"Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine."
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"You are here. You are not the one who will go and come. Let what you're suffering from go and come, not you. You stay put."
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"Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation."
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"It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer."
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"Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere."
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