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[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)


Anne Lamott


#buddhism #desire #grief #love #suffering

That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster. So when you realise you’ve gone a few weeks and haven’t felt that awful struggle of your childish self — struggling to lift itself out of its inadequacy and incompetence — you’ll know you’ve gone some weeks without meeting new challenge, and without growing, and that you’ve gone some weeks towards losing touch with yourself. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.


Ted Hughes


#love #paradox #suffering #love

Everyone has their own idea of the perfect partner, but they usually do not consider what it is they have to offer one.


Stephen Richards


#law-of-attraction #love #mind-power #stephen-richards #love

It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects, and told me, as I thought, with triumph. This person's suspicions, therefore, I have had to oppose by endeavouring to appear indifferent where I have been most deeply interested; and it has not been only once; I have had her hopes and exultations to listen to again and again. I have known myself to be divided from Edward forever, without hearing one circumstance that could make me less desire the connection. Nothing has proved him unworthy; nor has anything declared him indifferent to me. I have had to content against the unkindness of his sister and the insolence of his mother, and have suffered the punishment of an attachment without enjoying its advantages. And all this has been going on at the time when, as you too well know, it has not been my only unhappiness. If you can think me capable of ever feeling, surely you may suppose that I have suffered now.


Jane Austen


#engagement #love #relationships #suffering #love

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.


St. Francis of Assisi


#patience #suffering #salvation

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.


William Faulkner


#happiness #optimism #suffering #optimism

There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.


R.C. Sproul


#god #gospel #justice #suffering #injustice

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.


Criss Jami


#adversity #artist #craftiness #craftsmanship #crafty

God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.


Elisabeth Elliot


#goodness #pain #suffering #trust #love

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.


Stephen Richards


#law-of-attraction #love #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power






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