#erin

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows ↗

— Nick Bantock

#pain #suffering #beauty

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about. ↗

— Stephen King

#pain #recovering #beauty

When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths--even such as you, who have home, friends, other admireres, everything to fill them. When such as I, who have no certain roof but the coffin-lid, and no friend in sickness or death but the hospital nurse, set our rotten hearts on any man, and let him fill the place that has been a blank through all our wretched lives, who can hope to cure us? Pity us, lady--pity us for having only one feeling of the woman left, and for having that turned, by a heavy judgment, from a comfort and a pride, into a new means of violence and suffering. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#love #suffering #beauty

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#choice #life #relaxing #suffering #beauty

Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains. ↗

— Catherine Marshall

#catherine-marshall #christy #christy-huddleston #beauty

Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#beauty

Maybe it was Roumiya's beauty that drove me away, her silent beauty, her eyes that seemed to be looking through everythig and draining it of all meaning. ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

#beauty

They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#hope #suffering #beauty

...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me... ↗

— John Geddes

#compulsion #love #suffering #beauty

...You bring out the truth in me, Callista, and make me whole. I need you to set me free and give me the courage to be as strong as you are. I love you... ↗

— Catherine LaRoche

#dom #master-of-love #courage