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Letter "S" » sufferings
«Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.»
«Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: / Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.»
Author: Bible
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beforehand, diligently, prophesied, searched, signify, sufferings, testified
«Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.»
«Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Friendship
| Keywords:
joys, shared, sufferings
«Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
satisfactions, sufferings
«The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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claimed, flaunt, flaunted, flaunting, increasing, matched, sensitiveness, sufferings
«My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter is; and were it, I'd not do so. This manner of thinking you find fault with is my sole consolation in life; it alleviates all my sufferings in prison, it composes all my pleasures in the world outside, it is dearer to me than life itself. Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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alleviated, alleviates, alter, composes, consolation, dearer, find fault, for dear life, hold dear, reflections, sole, stemmed, stems, sufferings, The Source, The Way I Am, unhappiness
«People serve the True Guru only when the fever of egotism has been eradicated. Nanak has met the Guru; all his sufferings have come to an end.»
«The Savior Lord is the treasure of intuitive peace, poise and bliss. He shall save me in the end. My pains, sufferings, fears and doubts have been erased. He has mercifully saved me from coming and going in reincarnation.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
erased, intuitive, mercifully, reincarnation, savior, sufferings
«Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.»
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