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• Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
  Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery. -- Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)...
• Once I learn to forgive, my heart will be open to further pain and misery. -- Dan Goodma
• Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
  The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth. -- Fedor Dostoevsky...
• For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vii, Line 263...
• We males cannot really know the misery of female birth control, just as we cannot know the pain of childbirth (a fact for which I get down on my knees and give thanks at every opportunity).
  -- Dave Barry...
• For any remedy there is a misery.
• Misery loves company