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“How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'”

“Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to go through life thinking that there is something wrong with us when we experience sadness, grief, and physical and emotional pain. The first truth points out that this is just the way it is. There is nothing wrong with you: you have just been born into a realm where pain is a given.”

Thinking Knows Way Firsts Pain Given Easy Born Grief Sadness Emotional Being True Realms Pleasant Truth Of Life Emotional Pain

Book:Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Source: Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

“I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.”

Book Might Pain Lying House Easy Bits Hours Grief Grace Sorrow Comfortable Library Ministers Affliction Furniture Pennies Happy Hour

Book:We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven

Source: We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven

“It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.”

Humans Heart Long Pain Faces Song Prayer Grief Silence Tears Honor Clouds Storm Genuine Grieving Vulnerability Touching Hopelessness Face To Face Helplessness Storm Clouds

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering.”

Ends Play Pain Suffering Individual Causes Grief Stage Sorrow Perceive Duality Pain And Suffering

Author:Anandamayi Ma

“Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain. Through want of a thing does its worth redouble, Through hunger's pangs does the feast content, And only the heart that has harboured trouble Can fully rejoice when joy is sent. Let no one shrink from the bitter tonics Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife, For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonics Are found in the minor strains of life.”

Knows Want Needs Heart Doe Soul Moments Pain Joy Asks Found Loss Grief Trouble Sweet Praying Sorrow Gains Lifetime Hunger Bitter Rejoice Yearning Minors Strife Strain Chords Shrinks Morrow

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.”

Ifs Giving Feels Pain Hurt Grief Eternal Rage

Author:Omar Khayyam

“No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.”

Ifs Doe Pain Grief Teach Lessons Tasks Concentration Unattractive

Book:Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas

Source: Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas

“When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.”

Feels Has Beens Pain Faces Moving Desire Loss Grief Secret Honor Encounters Avoiding Our Love Secret Love

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.”

Long Doe Moments Seems Pain Suffering Grief Records Progress Return Sorrow Seasons Rounds Circles Mood Divides Chronicles

Book:Works: Edited with an Introduction

Source: Works: Edited with an Introduction

“While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.”

Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”

Ifs Heart Pain Grief Compassion Garden Allies Griefing Grief Loss Searching For Love Pain And Loss Love And Wisdom

Author:Rumi

“You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.”

Needs Pain Faces Walks Grief Remembrance

Author:Phil McGraw

“What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges. It may cause you grief, it may test your relationships and cause you to question your sanity, but you can do it! Yes, a fifty-seven year-old man can run across the United States and break a couple or records in the process. People of any age can accomplish what few others have done; we can endure the trials, overcome the obstacles, put up with the pain to realize our dreams. Why not try?”

Source: Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Ameri ca

“It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He tempts them to sin, and then to regard themselves as too vile to approach their heavenly Father or to excite His pity. The Lord understands all this. Jesus assures His disciples of God's sympathy for them in their needs and weaknesses. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart.”

Source: The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated

“Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the inner translates into the outer, the sense that one is expected to perform grief palatably. (If you don’t seem sad, people worry; but if you are grief-stricken, people flinch away from your pain.)”

People Ifs Kind Seems Pain Differences Grief Worry Expected Uncertainty Translate Precise Seeming

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.”

People Knows Want Humans Helping Pain Common Grief Behinds Steps Sadness Share Achievement Stranger Human Experience Common Denominator Lack Of Love

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone.”

Looks Soul Running Pain Grief Stones Rose Running Away Remedy Rubies

Author:Rumi

“All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.”

May Pain Sin Grief Greater Ought Endure Commit Pretence

Book:Letters Concerning the Love of God

Source: Letters Concerning the Love of God

“I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”

Thinking Long Seems Pain Remember Order Fall Loses Sleep Grief Tree Letting Go Roots Seasons Riches Psychics Renewal Let It Go

Author:May Sarton

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