#uf

And you thought: they're used to it. But that was how those who suffered less always thought about those who suffered more, that they were used to it, that they no longer felt it as you did. Nobody ever got used to it. All they learned to do was to stop letting it show. ↗

— James Meek

#love

One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country. ↗

— Wasif Ali Wasif

#sufi-wisdom #love

Without your wound where would your power be? It is your very remorse that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In love’s service only the wounded soldiers can serve. ↗

— Thorton Wilder

#love #suffering #woundedhealer #love

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. ↗

— John Green

#love #suffering #love

If a UFO did land, and invite me onboard, I'd love to have the balls to go in. So, I search the skies for extra testicles. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#pun #ufo #wordplay #love

To you I speak with much hesitation about suffering. . . . But there is an introduction to suffering which comes with the birthpains of Love. And in such suffering one finds for the first time how deep and profound is the nature and meaning of life. And in such suffering one sees, as if one’s eye were newly opened upon a blinding light, . . . And there too is suffering, but there, above all, is peace and victory. ↗

— Thomas Kelly

#life

...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #suffering #love

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering. ↗

— Denis de Rougemont

#passion #poets #suffering #love

...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #scars #soul #suffering #love

The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass...all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#suffering #love