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“You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.”

Pain Fantasy Childhood Pure Laughter Gold Opposites Sunlight Within You Mud Apprehension Filth Nausea Shirk

Book:Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.”

Pain Suffering Sun Pride Illusion Gold Chosen

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.”

“Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.”

Feels Heart Doe Ends Pain Suffering Dies Causes Black Grief Compassion Grace Sadness Gold And Love Remains Intense Layers Pearls Coins Resignation Kernel Black Pearl

Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins, or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.”

Knows World Pain Christ Sin Forever Missing Thousand Gold Shining Dear Commodity Can Not Pearls Jewels Rubies

Book:Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks

Source: Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks

“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.”

Source: De profundus

“Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?”

Should Pain Pleasure Sadness Sad Gold Thread Grey

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Doe Hard Earth Pain Lying He Man Pure Gold Lays Treasure Sand Metals Nevertheless Rubbish Pebbles Dross

Book:The Works of John Locke

Source: The Works of John Locke

“Dramatically at first - that's how I handle emotional pain. If there were an award given for these moments, then I would have a mantle full of gold statuettes. Then I take stock and seek counsel from people I trust and talk myself into a state of reflection and remember that it won't last forever.”

People Ifs Firsts States Moments Pain Lasts Remember Given Forever Emotional Reflection Gold Handle Awards Emotional Pain

Author:Danielle Cormack

“I think most entrepreneurs would refer to themselves as "accidental". No one looks for stress and pain. You stumble on to it. Also, no one looks for pots of gold, it just happens.”

Thinking Pain Gold Stress Entrepreneur Pot Pot Of Gold

Author:Ronnie Apteker

“Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.”

Want Giving Littles Pain Doors Fame Gold Give Me Shame Hunger Leaving Me Little Love

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.”

Humans Art Reality Action Pain Memories Common Behinds Gold Patterns Meaning Of Life

Author:Lawrence Durrell

“I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light.”

Knows Looks Light Eye Pain Remember Night Turns Stars Black Break Millions Darkness Rain Gold Madness Silver

Author:Jennifer Donnelly

“Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about the humor, the intelligence, the tenderness, the brilliance of the folks in DeLisle, Mississippi. A community that's usually wiped off the literary map can't be erased when it's in a book this good.”

Men Book Pain Community Loss Clear Gold Folks Maps Hardship Old Man Tenderness Brilliance Mississippi Alchemist Pain And Loss

Author:Victor LaValle