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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of the overcoming of it.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.