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title: "6 Suffering Create Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthieu-ricard/good-and-evil-exist-only-in-terms-of-the-happiness-or-suffering-they/)

[Matthieu Ricard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthieu-ricard/)

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> [Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/everyone-wants-a-happy-life-without-difficulties-or-suffering-we/)

[Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama/)

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> [The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-mental-suffering-you-create-is-always-some-form-of-non-acceptance/)

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

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> [Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lynch/anger-stress-tension-depression-sorrow-hate-fear-these-things-start/)

[David Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lynch/)

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> [The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-more-suffering-you-create-the-more-suffering-comes-to-you/)

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

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> [“Adversity, illness, and death are real and inevitable. We chose whether to add to these unavoidable facts of life with the suffering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama-xiv/adversity-illness-and-death-are-real-and-inevitable-we-chose-whether/)

[Dalai Lama XIV](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama-xiv/)

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