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Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.
The Art of Happiness
We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
Peter Camenzind
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues
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