#erin

If like fcuks you hard, you fcuk her more harder. If she betrays, put little bit more effort and she will be dead flat. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #pain #suffering #anger

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-ros

#suffering #beauty

We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us. ↗

— Richard Dahlstrom

#blessing #glory #hope #justice #life

I dunno, remember when we were in East St. Louis with George, and Jack you said you'd love those beautiful dancing girls if you knew they would live forever as beautiful as they are?" (p. 173) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#temporary #withering #beauty

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee. ↗

— Steve McConnell

#software-engineering #money

I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering. ↗

— Somaly Mam

#life #suffering #world #change

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argument #challenge #changing #changing-your-mind #controversial

You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds; ↗

— Robert Fanney

#courage #enablement #evil #fantasy #fight

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#miss-marchmont #selfish #suffering #villette #nature

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion. ↗

— Criss Jami

#authority #beast #boldness #conquering #courage