The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid read more

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!

Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of read more

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when
the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when
the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
[Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,
Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men read more

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

The heart was made to be broken

The heart was made to be broken