Emotional Suffering Quotes

• If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

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  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem   Recovery   Emotional  

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forgiveness   Peace   Anger  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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  Helen Keller

  Inspirational   Life   Motivational  

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

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  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Loneliness   Emotional   Suffering  

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• Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

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  Daniel Kahneman

  Loneliness   Emotional   Elderly  

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

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  Helen Keller

  Strength   Being Strong   Encouragement  

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".

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  Charlie Chaplin

  Yoga   Emotional   Suffering  

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• This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

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  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspiration   Emotional   Suffering  

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.99, Zondervan

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