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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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My personal trails have also taught me the value of unmerited suffering. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways that I could respond to my situation: either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a crea
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John M. Koller
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The anatta theory denies the existence of a self only when the word self is taken to refer to some thing in addition to the groups of factors making up a person. The conviction that there is a substantial self is the root-cause of suffering, for this re
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G. K. Chesterton
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has alwa
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Joseph Addison
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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.
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Jane Austen
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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.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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My personal trails have also taught me the value of unmerited suffering. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways that I could respond to my situation: either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a crea
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Unknown
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Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.
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Sigmund Freud
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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
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La Rochefoucauld
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For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
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John Ciardi
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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John Ciardi
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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Woody Allen
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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
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Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Anatole France
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Suffering . We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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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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Rita Mae Brown
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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.
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Henri Frdric Amiel
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.
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WORDSWORTH: _Laodamia._
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Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
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Jerry Seinfeld
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
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SHELLEY: _Julian and Maddalo._
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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong. They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
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Charles Fletcher Lummis
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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.
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Peter Singer
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All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact in suffering the animals are our equals.
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MRS. BROWNING: _Vision of Poets,_ St. 330.
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_I know_--is all the mourner saith, Knowledge by suffering entereth; And Life is perfected by Death!
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LONGFELLOW: _Goblet of Life._
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O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!
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Louise Bogan
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.
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Ken Keys
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _A Rhymed Lesson. Urania._
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Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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Erich Fromm
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
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Erich Fromm
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies
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Bertrand Russell
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'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Akhenaton
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The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
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Trevor Rook
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There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.
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G. K. Chesterton
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has alwa
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JAMES ALDRICH: _A Death-Bed._
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Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away, In statue-like repose.
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John M. Koller
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The anatta theory denies the existence of a self only when the word self is taken to refer to some thing in addition to the groups of factors making up a person. The conviction that there is a substantial self is the root-cause of suffering, for this re
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering??”this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o???clock in the morning, a forgo
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Eric Mascall
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A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
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Simone Weil
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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.
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Hermann Hesse
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Herbert Hoover
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Thus the scene of the tragedy of Liberty world over must be suffering and discontent among the people. The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; idealism without realism; slogans, phrases
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Godfather, The
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Don Corleone What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you.
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Richard Dawkins
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Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
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William Wordsworth
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What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind.
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John B. Gough
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What is a minority The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
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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!!!
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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.
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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.
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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 ha
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Man can live far from God -- not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.
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"Ah, the suffering. The sweet suffering." -- Pinhead
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"There's suffering and then there's suffering"
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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
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A little suffering is good for the soul.
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Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
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Suffering the Inhumanity of Regular Employment
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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
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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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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
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Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
(To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
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Many people have died for their beliefs?The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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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.
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
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Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
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The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditiona
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"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional." -- Kathleen Casey Theisen
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"Gotta have my suffering so that I can bear my cross" - Tori Amos
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There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
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"Let's all have a good laugh at my family's pain and suffering."
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"You have brought nothing but pain and suffering to the crew" - Picard
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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"I gotta have my suffering so I can have my cross." -- Tori Amos
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"I bet your the only male in the school suffering from penis envy."
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"his perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain"
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"Don't accept that what's happening is just a case of other's suffering"
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"Your suffering will be legendary... even in Hell!"- Hellraiser
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The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.
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"Your suffering will be legendary... even in Hell!" -- Pinhead
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"Lawyers of Suffering" by Grin and Barrett
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"A little suffering is good for the soul." - Kirk
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"A moment of joy in a lifetime of suffering." - Londo
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"Oh, no tears please. It's a waste of good suffering."
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