"We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms."
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"Happiness is the cessation of suffering."
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"If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society."
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"If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore."
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"Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being."
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"To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence."
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"You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering."
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"When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there."
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"When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere."
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"People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result."
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"Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you."
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"The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply."
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"Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other."
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"The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation."
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"He who suffers, remembers."
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"For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering."
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"I am willing to accept that there are women out there who say they have chosen to sell sex. But they are in the minority, and laws are there to protect the majority. In this case, the majority of women in prostitution want to get out, and suffer violence and exploitation. If there are women who have made a free choice, there are more who have had no choice."
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"The writing that most interests me isn't about narcos or sicarios or police or whatever. It's about the victims and the survivors, and about the suffering and trauma that so many in Mexico and Central America endure, and that is all around us whether we notice it or not."
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"Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses."
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"Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom."
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