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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

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Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to ...more

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At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

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With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of su...more

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She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth.""Um, okay. So what is it?""Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you....more

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Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lyi...more

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...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you...more

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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

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How will we ever get out of the labyrinth of suffering ?

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Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

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Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication co...more

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It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

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There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

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We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died ...more