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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
“Christianity makes suffering contagious”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”
Oscar Wilde
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Life is suffering.”
Buddha
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Kahlil Gibran
“I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”
“Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”
Winston Churchill
“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”
Thomas Merton
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