"Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form."
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"It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)"
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"Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes."
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"They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!"
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"Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them."
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"Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all."
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"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."
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"On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering."
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"Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact."
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"Problems associated with the menstrual cycle are now commonplace. The majority of teenagers whom I have seen suffer problems such as PMS, severe cramping, and irregular or heavy cycles. Severe hypothyroidism may cause the menses to stop. Dr. Barnes noted his patients with menstrual problems usually suffered many other telltale symptoms of hypothyroidism. Mine do as well. A large majority of menstrual problems resolve after treatment with dessicated thyroid."
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"Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state."
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"What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?"
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"If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down."
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"She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound."
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"There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't."
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"The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?"
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"Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer."
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"Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)"
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"Many Christians suffer because they're too busy seeking carnal knowledge instead of the Word of God."
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"No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world."
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