"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."

Emotional, Suffering, Love, Expectation, Freedom

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"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."

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"Brokenness a result of bitterness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Your gaze fixated on him, my imagination deducing your conclusion. The agony sets in, this pain is unsurpassable with despair adjoining. But I can feel my heart knocking against my chest. So I'll attempt to push ahead for my behalf."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Grief gives you a hundred reasons to cry; hope gives you a thousand reasons to smile, joy gives you a million reasons to laugh, and love gives you billion reasons to rejoice."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Do not let your anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"Respond with love even when someone wants to hurt you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Lives in eternity's sun rise."

William Blake, English Poet

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"Bitterness is a broken spirit."

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"If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."

Education

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer."

Emotion

"Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur."

Future

"If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you."

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"I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime."

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"Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind."

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"She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated a new generation of grace. A new era began. She is the cosmic bride, Earth, which opens to the heavens and allows itself to be fertilized."

Spiritual

"Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint."

Growth

"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

History

"I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we're alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange."

Love