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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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