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title: "218 Pain suffering Quotes by 182 authors"
description: "Browse 218 Pain suffering quotes by 182 authors. Discover the best Pain suffering sayings and thoughts."
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> [“❤Sometimes our greatest gifts and talents are birthed through great pain and suffering”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-pina/sometimes-our-greatest-gifts-and-talents-are-birthed-through-great/)

[Timothy Pina](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-pina/)

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> [True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-harjo/true-power-does-not-amass-through-the-pain-and-suffering-of-others/)

[Joy Harjo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joy-harjo/)

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> [Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/pain-and-suffering-that-are-not-transformed-are-usually-projected/)

[Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rohr/)

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> [“The fact is, whenever you resist the pain that’s there, your suffering increases.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisha-goldstein/the-fact-is-whenever-you-resist-the-pain-that-s-there-your-suffering/)

[Elisha Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisha-goldstein/)

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> [O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/o-seeker-pain-and-suffering-make-one-aware-of-god/)

[Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/)

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> [Through much pain and suffering, I am finding myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-fuller/through-much-pain-and-suffering-i-am-finding-myself/)

[Rodney Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-fuller/)

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> [“Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleesha/let-the-pain-suffering-of-all-that-appears-to-be-lost-be-soothed/)

[Eleesha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleesha/)

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> [You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-callis/you-don-t-want-to-diminish-anybody-s-pain-and-suffering/)

[James Callis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-callis/)

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> [The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peace-pilgrim/the-pain-and-suffering-that-comes-to-us-has-a-purpose-in-our-lives-it/)

[Peace Pilgrim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peace-pilgrim/)

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> [The world is full of things that dont go as you wish. The longer you live, the more realize that reality is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-world-is-full-of-things-that-dont-go-as-you-wish-the-longer-you/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Heartbreak brings us immense pain and suffering but in reality we must realize that it brings us one step closer to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/heartbreak-brings-us-immense-pain-and-suffering-but-in-reality-we/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-chandler/i-think-people-can-get-a-little-weirded-out-by-pain-suffering-and/)

[Matt Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-chandler/)

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> [“Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain. Suffering does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/those-who-believe-their-suffering-has-been-valuable-love-more-readily/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/the-truth-that-many-people-never-understand-until-it-is-too-late-is-2/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [“If you think the planet and everything on it is here for your own personal use, then I guess the pain and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-d-barant/if-you-think-the-planet-and-everything-on-it-is-here-for-your-own/)

[D.D. Barant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-d-barant/)

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> [Why is there still so much pain and suffering being produced when there's so little demand for it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashleigh-brilliant/why-is-there-still-so-much-pain-and-suffering-being-produced-when/)

[Ashleigh Brilliant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashleigh-brilliant/)

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> [The hardship, the pain, the suffering of my brother and my son in prison, that's absolutely their experience, that's not mine. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-edgar-wideman/the-hardship-the-pain-the-suffering-of-my-brother-and-my-son-in/)

[John Edgar Wideman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-edgar-wideman/)

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> [“The most wonderful things in life will be difficult. There is so shortcut, no easy way out. Success will be grueling. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ally-peters/the-most-wonderful-things-in-life-will-be-difficult-there-is-so/)

[Ally Peters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ally-peters/)

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> [All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lin-yutang/all-men-and-women-have-passions-natural-desires-and-noble-ambitions/)

[Lin Yutang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lin-yutang/)

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> [“Brom bowed his head. "Those who love the pain and suffering of others. They wear many faces and go by many disguises,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-paolini/brom-bowed-his-head-those-who-love-the-pain-and-suffering-of-others/)

[Christopher Paolini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-paolini/)

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> [“Now, as I look back on my life, I can honestly say I wouldn't change it. The pain and suffering have brought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-balter/now-as-i-look-back-on-my-life-i-can-honestly-say-i-wouldn-t-change-it/)

[Marie Balter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-balter/)

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> [He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never really be helped. It is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-ohsawa/he-who-thinks-that-macrobiotic-living-is-merely-a-cure-for-physical/)

[George Ohsawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-ohsawa/)

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> [Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidonie-gabrielle-colette/is-suffering-so-very-serious-i-m-referring-to-the-kind-of-suffering-a/)

[Sidonie Gabrielle Colette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidonie-gabrielle-colette/)

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> [It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-salzberg/it-s-difficult-to-admit-to-ourselves-that-we-suffer-we-feel/)

[Sharon Salzberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-salzberg/)

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> [Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-peters/looking-to-the-material-world-for-the-satisfaction-of-our-inner-needs/)

[Russell Peters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-peters/)

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> [“Or is it the case that no one gets over anything? Is there really that much pain and suffering continuing right now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/koethi-zan/or-is-it-the-case-that-no-one-gets-over-anything-is-there-really-that/)

[Koethi Zan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/koethi-zan/)

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> [“Countless self-help books, blogs and seminars promise relief from suffering, when pain and suffering are as much part of life as happiness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-lerner/countless-self-help-books-blogs-and-seminars-promise-relief-from/)

[Harriet Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-lerner/)

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> [The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-prescott/the-time-has-also-come-to-recognize-the-painful-truth-that/)

[James W. Prescott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-prescott/)

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> [People do not like the tragic side of life. They deny pain and suffering as a facet of life. Even when someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-limn/people-do-not-like-the-tragic-side-of-life-they-deny-pain-and-2/)

[Jeremy Limn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-limn/)

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> [To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/to-some-the-image-of-a-pale-body-glimmering-on-a-dark-night-whispers/)

[Philip Yancey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-yancey/)

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> [“Now, perhaps nowhere as poignantly as in the omnipresent theme of Christ dying on the cross, the central image of art is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/now-perhaps-nowhere-as-poignantly-as-in-the-omnipresent-theme-of/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

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> [Alone is scary but what is scarier is being sexually abused by your stepfather and you were just a kid enduring all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa/alone-is-scary-but-what-is-scarier-is-being-sexually-abused-by-your/)

[Lisa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa/)

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> [“Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-lewis/anesthesia-was-discovered-do-you-know-what-it-means-to-relieve-man-of/)

[Joseph Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-lewis/)

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> [“What is it to succeed in yoga? Success in yoga means finding the smile buried deep beneath the pain and discomfort of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darren-main/what-is-it-to-succeed-in-yoga-success-in-yoga-means-finding-the-smile/)

[Darren Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darren-main/)

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> [“Do Something! I was sitting on a plane after a long, tiring business trip. I was a bit grouchy and irritable because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-maraboli/do-something-i-was-sitting-on-a-plane-after-a-long-tiring-business/)

[Steve Maraboli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-maraboli/)

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> [“Let me tell you the truth about the world to which you so desperately want to return. It is a place of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-connolly/let-me-tell-you-the-truth-about-the-world-to-which-you-so-desperately/)

[John Connolly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-connolly/)

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> [“Operating theaters are not nearly as popular as dramatic theaters, musical theaters, and movie theaters, and it is easy to see why.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lemony-snicket/operating-theaters-are-not-nearly-as-popular-as-dramatic-theaters/)

[Lemony Snicket](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lemony-snicket/)

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> [“The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-pain-that-you-create-now-is-always-some-form-of-nonacceptance/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [“Bear one another’s burdens, the Bible says. It is a lesson about pain that we all can agree on. Some of us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/bear-one-another-s-burdens-the-bible-says-it-is-a-lesson-about-pain/)

[Philip Yancey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-yancey/)

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> [“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/in-conformity-with-this-spirit-and-aim-of-the-stoa-epictetus-begins/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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                        "text": "“Now, as I look back on my life, I can honestly say I wouldn't change it. The pain and suffering have brought me psychological understanding and spiritual strength. I still feel the pain when I reflect on those experiences, but while once they would throw me deeper and deeper into anxious despair, now they feed my desire to keep growing. (3)”",
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                        "text": "Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.",
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                        "text": "It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone else is suffering, we like to tuck them away, out of sight. It's a cruel, cruel conditioning. There is no controlling the unfolding of life.",
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                        "text": "Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in essence, fear of the future. We are afraid of things that have not yet happened, but which if they did might bring us pain, suffering, or some other discomfort - or stand in the way of some future contentment. And we are afraid that circumstances that are already causing us displeasure may continue in the future.",
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                        "text": "“Or is it the case that no one gets over anything? Is there really that much pain and suffering continuing right now at this minute, in millions of hearts, in bodies carrying on the burden of existence, trying to smile through tears for fleeting, passing moments here and there-when they can forget what happened to them, maybe even for whole hours at a time? Maybe that's what it is to live.”",
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                        "text": "“Countless self-help books, blogs and seminars promise relief from suffering, when pain and suffering are as much part of life as happiness and joy.The only way to avoid being mistreated in this world is to fold up in a dark corner and stay mute. If you go outside, or let others in, you'll get hurt many times. Ditto if you've grown up in a family rather than begin raised by wolves. Some people will behave badly and will not apologize, repair the harm, or care about your feelings.”",
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                        "text": "The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization… The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.",
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                        "text": "People do not like the tragic side of life. They deny pain and suffering as a facet of life. Even when someone writes about the sorrow they complain. But we've to remember sorrow is life, and life is sorrow. We're made to suffer, if you tell yourself you will not suffer you living in a delusion. Are we accustomed to the pain of life? No we're not, because pain or the loss of a loved one is not expected. We expect what we expect to happen, we do not expect what doesn't happen. I say, that under everything, buried deep down the well of life, is pain love joy, all these events and emotional attachments come and go like the wind.",
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                        "text": "To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, \"I LOVE YOU.\" Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.",
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                        "text": "“Now, perhaps nowhere as poignantly as in the omnipresent theme of Christ dying on the cross, the central image of art is no longer the celebration of nature and of life but the exaltation of pain, suffering, and death.25 For in this new reality that is now said to be the sole creation of a male God, the life-giving and nurturing Chalice as the supreme power in the universe has been displaced by the power to dominate and destroy: the lethal power of the Blade. And it is this reality that to our day afflicts all humanity—both women and men.”",
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                        "text": "Alone is scary but what is scarier is being sexually abused by your stepfather and you were just a kid enduring all the pain, suffering and can't say anything or else he will take your family away hiding a smile everyday in me life is hard to do my own mom didn't believe me and left there alone I just regret not saying anything earlier to have someone special in your life is amazing to have never lose the sight of that person or else you'll regret it for the rest of your life I was now able to let it go and move on I'm now happy I learned something to be careful who you trust",
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                        "text": "“Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane of all of man's accomplishments, and what a merciful accomplishment it was. For this great discovery we are indebted to Dr. W. T. G. Morton. Do you know that the religionists opposed the use of anesthesia on the ground that God sent pain as a punishment for sin, and it was considered the greatest of sacrileges to use it—just think of it, a sin to relieve man of his misery! What a monstrous perversion! This one instance alone should convince you of the difference in believing in God or not. No believer in God would have spent his energies to discover anesthesia. He would have been in mortal fear of the wrath of his God for interfering with his 'divine plan,' of making man suffer for having eaten of the fruit of the 'Tree of Knowledge.' The very crux of the matter is in this one instance. Man seeks to relieve his fellow man from the suffering of disease and the pangs of mental agony. The believers in God are content that man's suffering is ordained, and therefore he accepts life and its trials and tribulations as a penance for living. The fear of the wrath of God has been a stumbling block to progress.”",
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                        "text": "“What is it to succeed in yoga? Success in yoga means finding the smile buried deep beneath the pain and discomfort of any moment. Success in yoga is knowing that others were able to find a smile beneath their pain and discomfort because you were near. Success in yoga is speaking to yourself and others with compassion and kindness, even when you want to wield your words as weapons. Success in yoga is to listen more than you speak. Success in yoga is when mindfulness celebrates the joyful moments and becomes a refuge for the painful ones. Success in yoga is to be grateful even for your pain, suffering, and challenges. Success in yoga is willingly taking the time to put the needs of another ahead of your own. Success in yoga is feeling fear rattle your bones and then doing it anyway. Success in yoga is not only finding your purpose in life, but also finding the courage and passion to live that purpose. Success in yoga is remembering that it was never about the number of times you fell but rather the number of times you got back up.”",
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                        "text": "“Do Something! I was sitting on a plane after a long, tiring business trip. I was a bit grouchy and irritable because the rigorous schedule I had made for myself left me exhausted. Looking to not talk to the person next to me and simply endure the flight, I decided to open my newspaper and read about what was happening in the world. As I continued to read, it seemed that everywhere I looked there were stories of injustice, pain, suffering, and people losing hope. Finally, fueled by my tired, irritable state, I became overcome with compassion and frustration for the way things were. I got up and went to the bathroom and broke down. With tears streaming down my face, I helplessly looked to the sky and yelled to God. “God, look at this mess. Look at all this pain and suffering. Look at all this killing and hate. God, how could you let this happen? Why don’t you do something?” Just then, a quiet stillness pacified my heart. A feeling of peace I won’t ever forget engulfed my body. And, as I looked into my own eyes in the mirror, the answer to my own question came back to me… “Steve, stop asking God to do something. God already did something, he gave you life. Now YOU do something!”",
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                        "text": "“Let me tell you the truth about the world to which you so desperately want to return. It is a place of pain and suffering and grief. When you left it, cities were being attacked. Women and children were being blasted to pieces or burned alive by bombs dropped from planes flown by men with wives and children of their own. People were being dragged from their homes and shot in the street. Your world is tearing itself apart, and the most amusing thing of all is that it was little better before the war started. War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity. There were wars before it, and there will be wars after it, and in between people will fight one another and hurt one another and maim one another and betray one another, because that is what they have always done. And even if you avoid warfare and violent death, little boy, what else do you think life has in store for you? You have already seen what it is capable of doing. It took your mother from you, drained her of health and beauty, and then cast her aside like the withered, rotten husk of a fruit. It will take others from you too, mark me. Those whom you care about--lovers, children--will fall by the wayside, and your love will not be enough to save them. Your health will fail you. You will become old and sick. Your limbs will ache, your eyesight will fade, and your skin will grow lined and aged. There will be pains deep within that no doctor will be able to cure. Diseases will find a warm, moist place inside you and there they will breed, spreading through your system, corrupting it cell by cell until you pray for the doctors to let you die, to put you out of your misery, but they will not. Instead you will linger on, with no one to hold your hand or soothe your brow, as Death comes and beckons you into his darkness. The life you left behind you is no life at all. Here, you can be king, and I will allow you to age with dignity and without pain, and when the time comes for you to die, I will send you gently to sleep and you will awaken in the paradise of your choosing, for each man dreams his own heaven.”",
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                        "text": "“Operating theaters are not nearly as popular as dramatic theaters, musical theaters, and movie theaters, and it is easy to see why. A dramatic theater is a large, dark room in which actors perform a play, and if you are in the audience, you can enjoy yourself by listening to the dialog and looking at the costumes. A musical theater is a large, dark room in which musicians preform a symphony, and if you are in the audience you can enjoy yourself by listening to the melodies and watching the conductor wave his little stick around. And a movie theater is a large, dark room in which a projectionist shows a film, and if you are in the audience, you can enjoy yourself by eating popcorn and gossiping about movie stars. But an operating theater is a large, dark room in which doctors preform medical procedures, and if you are in the audience, the best thing to do is to leave at once because there is never anything on display in an operating theater but pain, suffering and discomfort, and for this reason most operating theaters have been closed down or have been turned into restaurants.”",
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                        "text": "“The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it. In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer. Or you may put it like this: the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering - and free of the egoic mind. Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.”",
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                        "text": "“Bear one another’s burdens, the Bible says. It is a lesson about pain that we all can agree on. Some of us will not see pain as a gift; some will always accuse God of being unfair for allowing it. But, the fact is, pain and suffering are here among us, and we need to respond in some way. The response Jesus gave was to bear the burdens of those he touched. To live in the world as his body, his emotional incarnation, we must follow his example. The image of the body accurately portrays how God is working in the world. Sometimes he does enter in, occasionally by performing miracles, and often by giving supernatural strength to those in need. But mainly he relies on us, his agents, to do his work in the world.We are asked to live out the life of Christ in the world, not just to refer back to it or describe it.We announce his message, work for justice, pray for mercy . . . and suffer with the sufferers.”",
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                        "text": "“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel of his philosophy, that we should bear in mind and distinguish what depends on us and what does not, and thus should not count on the latter at all. In this way we shall certainly remain free from all pain, suffering, and anxiety. Now what depends on us is the will alone, and here there gradually takes place a transition to a doctrine of virtue, since it is noticed that, as the external world that is independent of us determines good and bad fortune, so inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ourselves proceeds from the will. But later it was asked whether we should attribute the names *bonum et malum* to the two former or to the two latter. This was really arbitrary and a matter of choice, and made no difference. But yet the Stoics argued incessantly about this with the Peripatetics and Epicureans, and amused themselves with the inadmissible comparison of two wholly incommensurable quantities and with the contrary and paradoxical judgements arising therefrom, which they cast on one another. An interesting collection of these is afforded us from the Stoic side by the *Paradoxa* of Cicero.\" —from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Paye in two volumes: volume I, pp. 88-89”",
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