"Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap."
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"Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her."
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"Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world."
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"Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer."
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"Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives."
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"Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us."
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"How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!"
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"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales."
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"Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses. And the conviction descended on him that love like theirs couldn't possibly suffer any change."
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"Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified."
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"What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence."
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"She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much."
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"The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction."
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"Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering."
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"Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming."
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"If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end."
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"It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment."
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"The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering."
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"In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family."
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"A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench."
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