People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.

David Brooks

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Be grateful in spite of your suffering.

Jordan Peterson

With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

We should accept our negative feelings rather than avoid or repress them. Suffering contributes to psychological growth.

Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Anger is more constructive than despair.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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