Who said “A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”?

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

“Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.”

“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”

“Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.”

“The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.”

“A ''sin'' is something which is not necessary.”

“A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.”

“Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.”

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”

“Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.”

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”