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"When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her."
"If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others."
"Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world."
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it."
"I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself."
"When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him."
"Suffering is wishing things were other than they are."
"The more you love, the more you suffer."
"You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth"
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
"Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water."
"What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope."
"Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may we store up the truths of God's Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure."
"It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."
"You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering."
"In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see."
"Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole."
"The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity."
"Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine."
"Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds."
