"The greatest grief's are those we
cause ourselves." (author unknown)
"The world breaks everyone and after many are strong
at the broken places." (Hemingway)
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full
also of the overcoming of it." (Helen Keller)
"All the best transformations are accompanied by
pain. That’s the point of them." (Fay Weldon)
"A wounded deer leaps highest" (Emily
Dickinson)
"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being
something that wants help from us." (Rainer Maria Rilke)
"Let your tears come. Let them water your
soul." (Eileen Mayhew)
"Where there is sorrow there is holy ground."
(Oscar Wilde)
"Sorrow makes us very good or very bad."
(George Sand)
"That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to
come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for
entrance." (Ravindranath Tagore)
"There is no birth of consciousness without
pain." (Carl Jung)
"It is significant that the experience of despair is
a yoga. Despair is often the first step on the path to spiritual life, and many
people do not awaken to the reality of God and the experience of transformation
in their lives until they go through the experience of emptiness, disillusion,
and despair." (Bede Griffith)
"Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never
know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on,
I’ll go on." (Samuel Beckett)
"God comes through the wound." (Marion
Woodman)
"…my deprivation had been my greatest blessing.
What counts is not what you have lost but what you have left." (Harold
Russell)
"It’s hard to tell our bad luck from our good
luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come." (Merle
Shain)
"All suffering prepares the soul for vision."
(Martin Buber)
"The heart that breaks open can contain the whole
universe." (Joanna Macy)
"Those times of depression tell you that it’s
either time to get out of the story your in and move into a new story, or that
you’re in the right story but there’s some piece of it you are not
living out." (Carol S. Pearson)
"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing
it to the full." (Marcel Proust)
"I bend but I do not break" (Jean de La
Fontaine)
"The greater the obstacle , the more glory in
overcoming it." (Moliere)
"Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere.
Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept
oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in
the world - making the most of one's best." (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
