This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling. ― bell hooks

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When I thought I was going to lose my mind in the face of so much suffering. This is how I discovered that a human being cannot live without believing.

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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

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If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

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We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

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