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The sheer strength of mutual suffering to produce unity and self-sacrifice can be seen in its ability to forge bonds across ethnic groups.
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410 |
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The more we focus on ourselves and avoid a commitment to others… research shows, the more we suffer from anxiety and depression.
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113 |
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When a group shares in the suffering, it actually brings a team together. It is the same reason people come together after a natural disaster.
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096 |
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Suffering, discomfort, worry – these things take courage to endure. But wisdom and compassion obligate us not just to avoid them when unnecessary but to try to protect others from them too.
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205 |
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Forgiveness originates in the part of each of us that yearns more for an end to foolish suffering and death than for the specious satisfaction of getting even.
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059 |
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We who blame ourselves need to learn that we have suffered enough, and that further suffering only keeps us from doing good in the world.
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121 |
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When one of us is strong an patient enough to accept pain, injustice and suffering without returning it in kind, we all benefit.
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150 |
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With a commitment to suffering, teams are able to tolerate struggle and overcome major psychological challenges like, for example, throwing everything away and trying again.
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036 |
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A bad or difficult boss is not an excuse for lack of effort on your part. It is your career that will suffer if you and your boss have a bad relationship.
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003 |
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…no executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.
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