#erin

I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#flowering #suicide #trees #gay

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#healing #suffering #healing

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#self #self-conciousness #suffering #alcohol

he who will not economize will have to agonize ↗

— Confucius

#ignorance #knowledge #suffering #wisdom #economics

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#suffering #holocaust

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#could #give #hurt #knowing #materialized

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#spirit #suffering #healing

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. ↗

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#pain #suffering #wounds #healing

The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering. ↗

— James Buchan

#blew #center #conveyed #least #messages

You must wake up to the truth that whoever you are, that whatever you have or think you do not have, you are perfect in the here and now. Unless you can accept yourself, you will never be satisfied with anything, because it all begins with yourself. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power #stephen-richards