"We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?"
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"I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises."
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"The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard."
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"A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer."
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"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."
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"Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering."
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"If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you."
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"To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others."
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"As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed."
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"The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved"
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"Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency."
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"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy."
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"The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves."
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"You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent."
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"The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice."
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"Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering."
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"the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering."
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"When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward."
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"Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder."
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"Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain."
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