"Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later."
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"But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever."
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"You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole."
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"It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor."
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"I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering."
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"Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it."
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"If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can."
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"God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering."
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"We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body."
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"I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing."
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"If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights."
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"Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us."
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"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."
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"When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same."
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"Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were."
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"What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember."
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"My God is love and sweetly suffers all."
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"You must suffer me to go my own dark way."
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"People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story."
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"Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong."
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