“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.” MindBeautifulSufferingBeautyGreatnessBearsGratitudeOptimismCheerCalamityCheerfulnessPain And SufferingWorld SufferingReduce StressSuffering And PainSuffering PainInsensibility Author:Aristotle
“Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.” MayPersonsSoulSelfBeautifulRichWiseBearsHarmonyEndurePossessionRichesMy SoulGrantsRestraintInner SelfSelf Restraint Author:Plato
“I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.” KnowsWellsPainPastBeautifulDeathMemoriesBearsComfortRemainsWoundsThank GodPartingHope For The FuturePast MemoriesBeautiful Memories Author:Max Muller
“Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.” IfsMenFirstsWellsKindBeautifulFashionBearsHonorWorshipChosenBelovedConformIncarnationRobesChoir Author:Mary Renault
“The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.” ThinkingWorldWantI CanEyeBeautifulLaughingBearsHorribleMessBlur Book:Ignite Me Source: Ignite Me
“Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.” CountryStatesWholeRealityAmericaBeautifulSongSocialToo MuchIdentityEmotionalBearsCitizensRacismRiversNotesVariousFrighteningFabricUrbanEpicMistakenDoomSpoonsAnthologyClaudiaMistaken Identity Author:Hilton Als
“The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.” IfsWorldBeautifulMemoriesEventsBearsLandscapeRemarkableHistoricEvokeNo MemoryBeautiful Landscapes Author:Madame de Stael
“Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.” EarthBeautifulRememberFallQualityBearsRainBosomsFertility Author:George Henry Lewes
“The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.” CharacterFactsHappensAmericaBeautifulHeavenBearsBeautiful Things Author:Dinaw Mengestu
“There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.” MenMindDoeTwoEndsBeautifulMovingTreeFeetMiddleObjectsBearsHundredRiversCrossesEmptyEternityRemainsCurrentsTeethRuinsThanksNarrativeFossilsCastlesThere Comes A TimeGrown ManSculptingAll That RemainsSpiresParthenon Author:David James Duncan