"There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent."
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"Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life."
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"Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons."
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"Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much."
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"Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn."
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"There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful."
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"Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not."
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"Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is."
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"The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with who you really are. Your true nature. Your essence."
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"As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be."
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"Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?"
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"The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others."
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"You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal."
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"The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will."
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"If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others."
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"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."
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"Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation."
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"And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you."
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"He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering."
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"Better to suffer than to die."
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