#uf

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#happiness #negation #suffering #life

من لا يعاني ، تصبح كلماته مجرد جمع من حروف لا معنى له ، حتى و إن كان هذا الجمع عقد من الجواهر الفريد ↗

— تركي الحمد

#suffering-life #life

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute ↗

— Rumi

#spirituality #sufi #wisdom #life

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #suffering #life

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music. ↗

— John Sebastian

#bands #because #bunch #could #evidence

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#children #parent #parenting #parents #relationship

Suffering is a part of real life lesson. ↗

— Toba Beta

#lesson #life #part #real #suffering

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#happiness #life #reading #self-sufficiency #life

Ne, nisu jučer ubili majku, srušili kuću. Ubili su, babo, moje djetinjstvo, mladost, snove, sav moj život. ↗

— Nura Bazdulj-Hubijar

#bosnian-war #childhood #childhood-suffering #life #war

When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it. ↗