When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.
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When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
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We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but... JAMES ALTUCHER The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize th... CECE WINANS We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and i... TAYA KYLE We have all witnessed, as well, family, friends, or medical workers who have chosen to provide years... NEIL GORSUCH The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer ... ALBERT EINSTEIN People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these bein... JULIAN BARNES Animals shouldn't suffer for the sake of beauty. DREA DE MATTEO If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. VICTOR HUGO If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer. 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'My husband doesn... BYRON KATIE I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do ... ROSIE O'DONNELL I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don... JACK RUBY I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer. BOB MARLEY I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed exce... AUGUSTO PINOCHET We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. GREG LEMOND We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confus... AKHIL SHARMA If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when yo... DAN MILLMAN I'm rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don't ge... ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN No one else should ever suffer as we did, TADATOSHI AKIBA We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR We all suffer from dreams. BERNARD CORNWELL As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being s... ROLAND BARTHES Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecu... FRANK GEHRY I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with peopl... RANDY HARRISON I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always... PADDY CONSIDINE that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the... AESCHYLUS As we celebrate the considerable progress we've made toward full equality in our military, we ca... MARK POCAN I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repe... CARL LEWIS You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. JOHN CIARDI Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back the... DAVID SHIELDS But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff tog... DANIEL DAE KIM Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it en... SUE JOHANSON Suffer to gain is better than gaining to suffer. In Christ you have to suffer to gain, but with the ... THE INSPIRATIONIST Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships. DANIEL GOLEMAN I'm retired and don't want the stress. I ran because I wanted to help the community, but the people ... BARBARA B. PRUITT We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's ... THEODORE ZELDIN Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance,... BOBBY HULL Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through ... CARL HONORE Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don... C. S. LEWIS Challenges often require that we suffer or endure over an extended period of time —thus Challenges... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Challenges often require that we suffer or endure over an extended period of time —thus Challenges... AULIQ-ICE All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elem... ORNETTE COLEMAN You want to enjoy your night, and you don't want to suffer in your heels too long. Lipstick comp... ELODIE YUNG For behold, I, God, have asuffered• these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would... JESUS CHRIST To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer HONORE DE BALZAC For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it ... BIBLE His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. EDMUND WALLER They may suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. Their ability to concentrate in school, their academ... KATHI PAIGE Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yours... BIBLE It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffe... JUNIUS I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends towar... AL JARREAU What happens if aliens take over and their leader is actualy Michael Jackson, we all suffer BOBMCFRANK MCONALD We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it... ED O'BRIEN Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. CASSANDRA CLARE I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do. AMY WINEHOUSE A lot of the 'leave' campaign was centered around a thinly veiled xenophobia, just 'cont... HOZIER As Washington prospers, workers suffer. JEFF SESSIONS
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