Quotes: suffering
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
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Christianity makes suffering contagious.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
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A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism, -
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
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Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
