Suffering

Suffering

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You desire to know the art of living, my friend?

It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

~Henri-Frederic Amiel

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If you are distressed by anything external,

the pain is not due to the thing itself,

but to your estimate of it;

and this you have the power

to revoke at any moment.

~Marcus Aurelius

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it,

and happier to be sometimes cheated

than not to trust.


~Samuel Johnson

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

~Ben Okri

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