#suffering

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#american people #country #left #long #outrage

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#fore #koreans #me #national #partition

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#cope #describe #difficult #entire #entire life

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#alive #been #book #dealing #four

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #grief #mourning #others #personal-experience

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#ennobling #recovery #suffering