"Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting."
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"Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer."
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"Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction"
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"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
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"Don't suffer fools or you'll become one."
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"Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women."
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"When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were."
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"Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him."
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"Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it."
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"Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness."
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"I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness."
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"So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?"
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"The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature."
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"There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need."
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"Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause."
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"When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?."
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"Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all."
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"I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering."
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"Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer."
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"Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness."
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