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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We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.
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