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Births

• 1944 - John Robert Cocker
• 1958 - Ron Reagan
• 1915 - Moshe Dayan
• 1978 - Sasha Azevedo
• 1901 - Max Euwe

Deaths

• 2008 - Dakin Williams
• 1834 - Marquis de Lafayette
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• 2002 - Stephen Jay Gould
• 1896 - Clara Schumann

• …when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Topics in Death, Suffering

  Tags in Compassion, Worth

• You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. — Jean Valjean –

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Perfection, Suffering

  Tags in Mortality

• Where there is love, there is pain.

  Topics in Love, Spanish Proverbs, Suffering
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  The people with the biggest hearts always suffer the most.

  Unknown

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Heart, Most, Biggest
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  The truth is that everyone’s gonna hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for.

  Bob Marley

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Find, Everyone
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  We are the causes of our own suffering.

  Unknown

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Own

• When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, dont sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice

  John Kerry

  Topics in Justice, Suffering

  Tags in Apathy, Indifference, Washington

• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  Harold S. Geneen

  Topics in Suffering

• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Suffering

• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

  Alexis Carrel

  Topics in Suffering

• Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

  Robert Mugabe

  Topics in History, Suffering

  Tags in Punishment

• Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Death, Suffering

  Tags in Skepticism, Sincerity

• Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

  Honoré de Balzac

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Constancy, Semblance

• Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

  Tom Stoppard

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Emphasis

• Literature… is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

  Thomas Mann

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Union

• We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Resignation

• We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Itself

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Decades

• You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Topics in Life, Suffering

• History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Compensation, Penalties