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We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.

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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

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If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.

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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

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Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

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Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

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In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

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I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.

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The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

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For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer

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I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life.

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Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.

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No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature.

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