"Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I — DON’T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!” Harry roared."
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"Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering"
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"Anyone can relate to suffering in this world."
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"We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost."
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"I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check."
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"A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted."
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"You can't lead a true life without suffering"
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"Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any."
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"To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour."
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"Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification."
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"There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering."
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"Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating."
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"If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering."
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"We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict."
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"I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot."
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"Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding."
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"Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed."
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"Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing."
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"Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering."
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"He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart."
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