"Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose."
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"I we are looking for God or an opportunity to learn and enrich our lives in every situation, we will find that, but if we are looking for how am I enjoying or suffering, we are subject to endless frustration"
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"The flip side of happiness is suffering."
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"We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering."
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"The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering."
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"We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message."
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"If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy."
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"The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but in which it still is very dependent on the United States, especially militarily, but not only in that respect. So to blame the Germans for everything is an easy way out for some of those suffering in Europe today."
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"Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you."
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"Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature."
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"To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures."
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"In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!"
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"All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains."
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"If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly."
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"If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife."
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"The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?"
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"People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself."
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"The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid."
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"I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities."
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"Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great."
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