#suffering

I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#artists #muses #passion #suffering #art

Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is the best. (Frida Kahlo, p. 157) ↗

— Martha Zamora

#frida-kahlo #fulfillment #suffering #art

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#daily #die #life #live #moment

They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#hope #suffering #beauty

With memories of gravestones, of combing fingers through tangled hair, I wonder too ... If the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, and our own emptiness, might actually become places to see. To see through to God. That which tears open our souls, those holes which splatter sight, they actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart aching beauty beyond. To him. To the god whom we endlessly crave. But how? How do we choose to allow the holes to become seeing through to collect places? How do I give up resentment for gratitude, anger for spilling joy, so focus for God communion. To fully live to fully live grace enjoy with all that is beauty internal it is possible ↗

— Ann Voscamp

#suffering #anger

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering the converse does. The brave who focus and all things good and all things beautiful to give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agent to bring the fullest night to all the world. ↗

— Ann Voscamp

#suffering #beauty

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years. ↗

— Byron Katie

#suffering #thinking #thought #truth #change

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#desire #longing #pain #suffering #time

I want to suffer so that I may love. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#suffering #dreams

If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others. ↗

— Diane Wood Middlebrook

#helping-others #mental-illness #relating #self-disclosure #suffering