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title: "5 Learned Suffering Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angelina-jolie/for-whatever-reason-i-don-t-know-why-but-cambodians-learned-something/)

[Angelina Jolie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angelina-jolie/)

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> [“How did I learn empathy? I learned it while suffering. How did I learn about karma? Because it came back to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-lynn-hope/how-did-i-learn-empathy-i-learned-it-while-suffering-how-did-i-learn/)

[Donna Lynn Hope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-lynn-hope/)

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> [human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-mead/human-beings-seem-to-hold-on-more-tenaciously-to-a-cultural-identity/)

[Margaret Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-mead/)

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> [No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/no-words-can-express-how-much-the-world-owes-to-sorrow-most-of-the/)

[George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/)

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> [“During the worst of it, onlookers who have learned my story often comment to me that, “All the hardships you suffered were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-browning/during-the-worst-of-it-onlookers-who-have-learned-my-story-often/)

[L.M. Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-browning/)

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