#suffering

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. ↗

— John Calvin

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It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. ↗

— Robert Capa

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The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here. ↗

— Perry Christie

#almost #coming #day #ended #here

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in. ↗

— Julie Christie

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All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least. ↗

— Richard Gere

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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ↗

— Anais Nin

#error #giving #i #living #losing

Learn the discipline of being surprised not by suffering but by joy. As we grow old, there is suffering ahead of us, immense suffering, a suffering that will continue to tempt us to think that we have chosen the wrong road. But don't be surprised by pain. Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

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It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct. ↗

— Jane Austen

#lady-russell #life-lessons #singularity #suffering #life

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#greatness #loss #love #pain #soul

This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because I can't understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#lost #love #pain #suffering #love