Suffering Quotes
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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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It is better to rage against the preventable suffering/because it leads to the suggestion of gorgeous alternatives/than to express our sadness.
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I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.
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This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read--that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when He prospers us; that there is no real happiness but in doing and suffering His will; and that this life is but a scene of probation through which we pass to the real life above.
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"Oh, ancient god, whatever your name," whispered Ahmed. "Help this lost son of a good father, this evil boy who meant no harm but slept in school, ran errands slowly, did not pray from his heart, ignored his mother, and did not hold his family in great esteem. For all this I know I must suffer. But here in the midst of silence, at the desert's heart, where even the wind knows not my name? Must I die so young? Am I to be forgotten without having been?"
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Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace.
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Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
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The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to adequate reparation for the suffering endured.
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The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things.
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Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.
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You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.
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Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
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Separation, suffering and evil are the absence of realizing Love, and are therefore ultimately illusions. They are also manifestations of our searching for Love, Wholeness, and Home. The evil or darkness is thus ultimately in the service of the Light.
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There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.
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What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
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A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.
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Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.
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Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
