"Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant."
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"I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way."
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"I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are."
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"Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom."
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"Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer."
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"We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering."
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"Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore."
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"Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering."
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"Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering."
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"When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible."
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"To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides."
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"Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment."
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"Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults."
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"Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer."
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"I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life."
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"Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies."
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"we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop."
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"That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter."
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"O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!"
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"Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone."
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