Suffering is Optional!

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“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional,” said the Dalai Lama, quoting an old Zen saying. 

Life inevitably brings pain and temporary defeats, even on the road to success. Develop a good sense of humor; nothing is better for softening blows. Learn to be safe laugh at yourself. When you see the humor in embarrassing situations, they cease to be stressful. The person who can laugh often can keep going when others fail.

You can’t win all the time. Michael Jordan considered the greatest basketball player of all time, scored on fewer than half of his field-goal attempts.

Great athletes know that they will fail often on their road to victory. They also know that every failure carries the seed of success.

Every failure makes room for future success if you let every failure teach you a lesson. The key is to respond with faith and persistence, and it will go away. 

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