"If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer."
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"Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering."
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"Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering."
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"To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation."
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"Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety."
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"Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not."
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"Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?"
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"Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless."
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"Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe."
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"And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it."
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"You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer."
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"The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen."
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"The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you."
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"Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver."
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"When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now."
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"The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering."
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"Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys."
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"Education is suffering from narration sickness."
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"Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it."
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"We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules."
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