#pain

The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment He has scattered broadcast...The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God...Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #pleasure #suffering #home

Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves. ↗

— Gerard Way

#everyone #get #help #know #love

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting. ↗

— Kim Weston

#child prodigy #i #i tried #painting #prodigy

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#bohemian #dad #fiction #had #i

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not. ↗

— James Worthy

#make #make up #mind #pain #play

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation. ↗

— John Yoo

#congress #conversation #definition #go #infliction

Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time in the future when the fate of the country is in their hands. ↗

— Erin Gruwell

#future-leaders #generation #negative-attitude #negativity #pain

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#beauty #books #chaos #life #music

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#love #pain #beauty

He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#pain #beauty