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"No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems." »Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold"
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"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." »Joseph Addison
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"I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!" »Anonymous
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"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." »Thich Nhat Hanh
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"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering." »Jane Austen
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"It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more." »Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
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"Man can live far from God -- not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering." »Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
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"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." »John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
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"Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, 'Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know.' He stared telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought 'This story isn't too long.' But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, 'Uh-oh, this story is getting long.' But then the story was over, and I said to myself 'You know, that story wasn't too long after all.' I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory." »Martin Luther King Jr., A Christmas Sermon for Peace on Dec 24, 1967
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"Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We are suffering from too much sarcasm." »Marianne Moore
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"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love." »Sigmund Freud
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"God is known more intimately in the midst of suffering." »The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts-Schori
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"We compound our suffering by victimizing each other." »Athol
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"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea." »Jules Renard
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"Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words." »Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
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"We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full." »Marcel Proust
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"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." »M. Kathleen Casey
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"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." »John Ciardi
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"Pain is inevitable suffering is optional." »Unknown
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"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional." »Unknown
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"For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon." »Woody Allen
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"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering." »Tom Stoppard
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"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared." »Edward Dahlberg
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"So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed." »Buddha
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