#suffering

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#create #help #ones #our #own

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#instinct #literature #suffering #union

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#being #cannot #crowd #gladly #i

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#attained #been #borne #freedom #happenings

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#learn #life #make #mistakes #never

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. ↗

— Helen Keller

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Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#free #give #life #lives #making

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ↗

— Helen Keller

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To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#brings #creates #dilemmas #elements #ending