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| Quote for category - suffering |
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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
- in suffering
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Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and
then, in time . . . president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red
Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to
comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.
- in suffering
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
- in suffering
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At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of
malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
- in suffering
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others,
whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
- in suffering
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I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the
lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false.
Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do
we know ... that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?
- in suffering
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Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
- in suffering
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by
suffering.
- in suffering
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
- in suffering
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All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
- in suffering
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- in suffering
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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What
he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
- in suffering
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But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in
the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
- in suffering
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Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of
another person. ln those transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if
they were our own.
- in suffering
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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that
consequently those people deserve to be punished.
- in suffering
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
- in suffering
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
- in suffering
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
- in suffering
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is
called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts,
nothing else.
- in suffering
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