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"One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer."
"We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers."
"But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble."
"We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."
"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."
"All human suffering concerns each human being."
"The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it."
"You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?"
"As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one."
"How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?"
"He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape."
"What's done to the children is done to society."
"Intense love is often akin to intense suffering."
"Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful."
"When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it."
"The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less."
"Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter."
"No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself."
"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."
"It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood."
