#suffer

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#being #conviction #had #i #lives

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#nothing #one thing #only #opium #physical

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

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