On pain and suffering.
Because I’m just in the mood for some. 🙂
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Khalil Gibran
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
“Adversity introduces a man to himself.” –Unknown
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
“There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”
― Libba Bray
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
― Marcel Proust
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?”
Kahlil Gibran
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