Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.
Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
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