Suffering brings experience. ― Aeschylus

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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment. ― bell hooks

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Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began. — Dennis Wholey

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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. ― C.S. Lewis

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A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

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As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media. ― Bell Hooks

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

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Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear. — Dalai Lama

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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

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