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I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

By Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author and journalist, most commonly recognized for her 2006 memoir, “Eat Pray Love.” She was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and is on Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageMental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

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C. S. Lewis
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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAnyone who has made us suffer is undoubtedly suffering too.

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Thich Nhat Hanh
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FindCenter Quotes ImageForgiveness is not just a selfish pursuit of personal satisfaction or righteousness. It actually alleviates the amount of suffering in the world.

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Noah Levine
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FindCenter Quotes ImageAffliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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C. S. Lewis
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FindCenter Quotes ImageAs my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageGod allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

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C. S. Lewis
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