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“If you want peace, accept. If you want suffering, expect.”

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“Empathy is an act of the imagination that grows from a gut-twinge of sympathy, a notion that I would not like to feel what that poor other person is feeling. We override our own flinching instinct to ask what another person's suffering might feel like.”

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Book:Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

“Suffering makes you feel safe because you know it so well. But there is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.”

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Book:The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Source: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“I will say a few words about the connection of love and intellectual honesty. There are several different attitudes that may be adopted towards the spectacle of intolerable suffering. If you are a sadist, you may find pleasure in it; if you are completely detached, you may ignore it; if you are a sentamentalist, you may persuade yourself that it is not as bad as it seems; but if you feel genuine compassion you will try to apprehend the evil truly in order to be able to cure it. The sentimentalist will say that you are coldly intellectual, and that, if you really minded the sufferings of others, you could not be so scientific about them. The sentimentalist will claim to have a tenderer heart than yours, and will show it by letting the suffering continue rather than suffer himself.”

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Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“He just wanted to get his arms around you. He was like a thirsty man in a desert.”

Love Suffering Craving

Book:Ice in His Veins

Source: Ice in His Veins

“She might never understand why the Almighty had allowed so much tragedy to befall her during the past two years, but she wasn't going to turn away from him as many people did when life got tough. She was going to cling tight to his promise that he would be with her always. And she was going to trust that one day soon, life would be bright again. Because if she didn't, the shadows hovering over her soul could swoop in and shroud her in darkness forever.”

Suffering Trusting God

Book:Dangerous Illusions

Source: Dangerous Illusions

“We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent. I desperately wanted mercy for Jimmy Dill and would have done anything to create justice for him, but I couldn't pretend that his struggle was disconnected from my own. The ways in which I have been hurt—and have hurt others—are different from the ways Jimmy Dill suffered and caused suffering. But our shared brokenness connected us.”

Suffering Humanity

Book:Just Mercy

Source: Just Mercy

“Those who suffer are egoistic, angry, unjust, and cruel, and less able to understand one another than really stupid people. Misfortune, far from uniting people, separates them, and even when it might be supposed that similarity of misfortune ought to bring people together, they show themselves a great deal more unjust and ruthless than do those who are comparatively content.”

Suffering Understanding Others Misfortune

Author:Anton Chekhov

“For human suffering there is a reason; perhaps the reason has not been found because the right questions have not been asked, or pressed far enough.”

Suffering Women Feminism The Feminine Mystique The Problem Without A Name

Author:Betty Friedan

“In comparison to them and countless others, I had no right to suffer. But suffering came whether or not I was worthy.”

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Book:Lady Clementine

Source: Lady Clementine

“Is the pain of revolution worth the gain? Cost-benefit accounting is a complicated business when applied to social transitions. But have we ever bothered to compare the violence of revolution against the violence that preceded it? "I do not know how one measures the price of historical victories;' said Robert Heilbroner, "I only know that the way in which we ordinarily keep the books of history is wrong." We make no tally of the generations claimed by that combination of economic exploitation and political suppression so characteristic of the ancient regimes: the hapless victims of flood and famine in the Yangtze valley of yesterday, the child prostitutes found dead in the back alleys of old Shanghai, the muzhiks stricken by cold and starvation across the frozen steppes of Russia.”

Suffering Violence Revolution Data Statistics

Book:Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Source: Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism