"Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now."
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"Love is, after all, a curse of suffering."
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"Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand."
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"You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering."
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"There is no limit to suffering."
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"When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods"
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"There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan."
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"This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong."
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"About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives."
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"Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?"
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"We learn from the things we suffer."
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"For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?"
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"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."
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"The man who does ill, ill must suffer too."
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"The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering."
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"We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire."
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"Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same."
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"Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can."
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"A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience."
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"You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering ."
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