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Every suffering is a seed, because suffering impels us to seek wisdom.


Bodhidharma

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MELVIN JULES BUKIET If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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RAINN WILSON It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
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MORITZ LEUENBERGER Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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ALLEN R. HUNT Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.
ELLEN G. WHITE What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the s...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?
NANCY FARMER Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.
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BARBARA JORDAN The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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MARY BALOGH Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering
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GARRY SHANDLING The intensity of Intellectual suffering in Man is same as Emotional suffering in a Woman.
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