"The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone."
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"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer."
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"But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear."
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"We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer."
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"The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief."
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"If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more"
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"Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense."
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"We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model ."
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"What can they suffer that do not fear to die?"
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"The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing."
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"To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed."
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"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."
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"We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living."
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"Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy."
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"No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it."
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"This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant."
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"Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it."
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"They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady"
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"I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism."
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"I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away."
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