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I shall look as if I were suffering. I shall look a little as if I were dying. It is like that. Do not come to see that. It is not worth the trouble.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Self-compassion encourages mindfulness, or noticing your feelings without judgment; self-kindness, or talking to yourself in a soothing way; and common humanity, or thinking about how others might be suffering similarly.

Rachel Simmons

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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Karl Marx

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God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.

Bernie Siegel

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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

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There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Dennis Prager

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Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

Brennan Manning

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In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

Malala Yousafzai

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When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

Robert Pirsig

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There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Augustine of Hippo

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To perceive is to suffer.

Aristotle

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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.

Helen Keller

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Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

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People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.

Deepika Padukone

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Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Paul Tournier

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

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