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Charles Baudelaire

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

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Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

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Christopher Rees

You reach a point where the pain gets so acute you do not feel it anymore, but to reach that point, you experience so much pain that you’re unable to forget the suffering that led you there.

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In the preshent human condition, pain is unavoidable. As long as you inhabit a physical body, you have to experience pain from time to time. Suffering is of a different nature. It is a reaction of the manas/mind that magnifies the pain and adds various emotional frills and thrills to it. In many cases, pain is only transient; but if one wishes, one can always add to it and suffer more – there is no limit.

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Thich Nhat Hanh

When we see that some suffering or some pain is coming up, we don’t try to run away from it. In fact, we have to go back and take care of it.

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One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

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I gritted my teeth and suffered my agony in silence. I did it for a sense of control, even though I knew that screaming was a release that would help ease a little of my pain.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

I’m afraid of life! There are times I–I am very frightened. Any happiness seems trivial. And yet, I wonder if it isn’t all a misunderstanding– this grasping after happiness, this fear of pain… If instead of fearing it and running from it, one could… get through it, go beyond it. There is something beyond it. It’s the self that suffers, and there’s a place where the self–ceases. I don’t know how to say it. But I believe that the reality–the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don’t in comfort and happiness–that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.

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Sometimes we are more attached to the pain than the pain is attached to us.

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I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

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Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans.

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Khaled Hosseini

She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up into the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke silently on the people below- As a reminder of how women like us suffer, she’d said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us

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