"May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering."
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"What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering."
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"For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering."
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"The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind."
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"To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences."
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"Happiness and suffering support each other. To be is to inter-be. It's like the left and the right. If the left is not there, the right cannot be there. The same is true with suffering and happiness, good and evil."
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"Freedom from suffering is a great happiness."
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"The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted."
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"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."
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"The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony."
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"We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation."
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"They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile."
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"But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment."
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"The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens."
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"Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape."
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"Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can."
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"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."
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"Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this generation, but perhaps as some kind of agenda we could invite our writers and cultural workers to address the problem a little more responsibly, because people are suffering tremendously from a want of data."
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"Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer."
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"A nation that knows how to work will never suffer."
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