"Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning."
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"Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love."
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"Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself."
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"MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."
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"This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings."
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"I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation."
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"Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth."
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"If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured."
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"To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic."
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"When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight."
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"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."
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"Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny."
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"There is no space wider than that of grief."
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"Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason."
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"Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes."
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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer."
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"I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else."
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"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."
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"I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!"
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"But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country."
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