"It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71]"

Bible on suffering   

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

Aeschylus on suffering
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

Aristotle on suffering
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"One must really have suffered oneself to help others."

Mother Teresa on suffering
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"For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing."

Carlyle, Thomas on suffering
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"To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide."

Pavese, Cesare on suffering
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"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full."

Proust, Marcel on suffering
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"If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all..."

Unknown, Source on suffering
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"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad."

Dickens, Charles on hope
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"He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope."

Proverb, Italian on hope
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"Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake."

Prior, Matthew on hope
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on hope
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"The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came."

Kingsley, Charles on hope
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. on hope
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"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

Erikson, Erik H. on hope
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"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."

Johnson, John on hope
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"The safest hope is in heaven."

Motto on hope
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on hope
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"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on hope
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"The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on dependence
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]"

Bible on peace
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"The peace makers shall be called the children of God."

Bible on peace
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"Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword."

Bible on peace
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"When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them."

Bible on peace
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"We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on peace
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"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves."

Camus, Albert on peace
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"What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace."

Conrad, Joseph on peace
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on trust
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

Hoppe, C. on achievement
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"Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back."

Henley, Don on hope
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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

Kingsolver, Barbara on hope
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