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is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt. Edward Bach

is a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until it reaches someone who receives it but does not pass it on.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on. Simone Weil

is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes one terribly, terribly grateful for every moment one's got.

Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got. John Tavener

is a result of the fact that men employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

No doubt you are right. . . there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men. . . did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is a school of wisdom (pathos gives mathos).

So for the Greeks suffering is a school of wisdom (pathos gives mathos, ran the Greek proverb: suffering is a school, see Heb. 5.8). Taught by Socrates, the . . .

is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

is almost always the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault. Sam Harris

is, along with disappointments and melancholy, there to mature and transfigure us: Not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. Hermann Hesse

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