| |  | | | | | | | | | | | To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. | | Woody Allen | | | Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. | | Mark Twain | | | What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. | | Ovid | | | What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. | | Buddha | | | You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean -- | | Victor Hugo | | | | | | | |
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