We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
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So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
Misery is a communicable disease.
Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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