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Miguel de Unamuno Quote: 'Suffering is the substance of life ...'

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The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
Bede Griffiths
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
S. J. Perelman
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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.


Philip Yancey
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The only substance properly so called is the soul.


Henri Frederic Amiel
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
Walter Pater
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The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.


Philip Treacy
My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.
Beth Moore
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There is some suffering that awaits us all.


Michael Leunig
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.


Jeremy Bentham
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke
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Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.
Dyan Cannon
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.


Karl Marx
It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?
John Money
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Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.
Peter Abelard
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
Lysander Spooner
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Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.


Leona Lewis
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.


Soren Kierkegaard
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