"Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world."
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"I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends."
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"People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows."
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"She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives."
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"Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body."
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"Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering."
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"But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery."
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"The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering."
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"The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have."
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"The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security."
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"If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside."
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"The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves."
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"To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death."
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"My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose."
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"Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route."
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"Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother."
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"You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering."
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"There is nothing special about your suffering."
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"Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage."
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"Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known."
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