| "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 |
| "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 |
| "One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering." »Jane Austen |
| "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 |
| "We compound our suffering by victimizing each other." »Athol |
| "We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love." »Sigmund Freud |
| "Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Pain is inevitable suffering is optional." »Unknown |
| "You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." »John Ciardi |
| "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." »M. Kathleen Casey |
| "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon." »Woody Allen |
| "Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering." »Tom Stoppard |
| "Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky |
| "For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer |
| "Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result." »Robert Green Ingersoll |
| "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 |
| "Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed." »Buddha |
| "There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified." »Carl Van Vechten |
| "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." »Rita Mae Brown |
| "You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago." »Rudyard Kipling |
| "I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key." »Charles Fletcher Lummis |
| "To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| "Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers." »Leigh Hunt |
| "The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul. (El Filibusterismo)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact in suffering the animals are our equals." »Peter Singer |
| "Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "People don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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