"Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings."
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"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds."
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"When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed."
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"He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer."
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"The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it."
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"There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."
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"True suffering does not know itself and never calculates."
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"For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering."
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"The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy."
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"I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering."
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"By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure."
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"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
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"Who can take away suffering without entering it?"
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"The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency."
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"It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world."
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"You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from."
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"I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings."
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"We do not suffer by accident."
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"Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance."
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"The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped in and guaranteed the banks, and committed to repay sums they can't afford to repay, and essentially committed themselves to generations of suffering."
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