"I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible."
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"In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance."
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"Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions."
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"Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?"
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"... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books."
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"... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong."
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"Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me?"
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"Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it."
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"Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]"
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"He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack."
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"He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer."
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"ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God."
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"To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings."
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"They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and erat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us."
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"I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky"
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"I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you."
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"The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper."
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"When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end."
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"The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love."
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"As we sin, so do we suffer"
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