"What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience."
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"Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering"
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"Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax."
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"The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis."
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"Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire."
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"If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them."
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"Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." . . . At all times, even in the midst of any type of suffering, I can realize that He knows, loves, watches, understands, and, more than that, He has a purpose."
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"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?"
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"Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past."
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"I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering."
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"We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything."
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"We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange."
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"Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer."
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"... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness."
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"They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market."
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"If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!"
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"We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to."
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"Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone."
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"There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!"
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"The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience."
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