"Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective."
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"We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly."
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"I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect."
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"He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but the creator of his own misery; and if a lover is unable to control his passion, he at least knows that he is himself to blame for his sufferings. But he who is loved without reciprocating that love is lost beyond redemption, for it is not in his power to set a limit to that other's passion, to keep it within bounds, and the strongest will is reduced to impotence in the face of another's desire."
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"This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone."
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"I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world."
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"Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy."
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"He who is grateful doesn't suffer."
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"Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow."
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"To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf."
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"Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being."
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"My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most part unaware, perhaps blinded by doctrine and ideology. For them, the answer is to develop a critical attitude toward articles of faith, secular or religious; to encourage their capacity to question, to explore, to view the world from the standpoint of others. And direct exposure is never very far away, wherever we live - perhaps the homeless person huddling in the cold or asking for a few pennies for food, or all too many more."
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"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."
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"The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity."
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"Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish."
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"The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering."
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"Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered."
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"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo."
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"Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love."
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"The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement."
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