Showing search results for "The Beauty In The Suffering" sorted by relevance. He bought me that day He died, and He showed His power when He overcame death and rose from the grave. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Chinua Achebe 1 Copy It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. // I want to see beauty. And, meanwhile , was every effort to change radically in the present or the near future doomed to failure Jawaharlal Nehru, There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. Such is His mystery: that beauty requires contrast, and that discord is fundamental to the creation of new intensities of feeling. Those who do not complain are never pitied., We were promised sufferings. Arthur Stanley Eddington, Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other. It takes a man to recognize TRUE beauty over just physical beauty. Just being in the moment in this place is the deepest practice of meditation. Thats just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And its breathtakingly beautiful. L.R. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty Joan Halifax, The woman who looks to God in the face of unkindness becomes more beautiful through suffering. No relief in hate. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Suffering Sayings and Suffering Quotes | Wise Sayings That suffering nourishes grace, and pain and joy are arteries of the same heart - and mourning and dancing are but movements in His unfinished symphony of beauty. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom. When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, We are the spirit, the collective conscience. Don't Take Anything Personally. "Strength does not come from winning. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. Angelina Jolie, I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. Hermann Hesse, We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. I am God-intoxicated. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete. Suffering is not a punishment it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll, True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. Saint Ignatius, Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. In the transmuted world new significances arise which are scarcely to be traced in the world of symbols; so that it becomes a world of beauty and purpose - and, alas, suffering and evil. 12."Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.". Suffering and joy. Joyce Meyer. "Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.". () It is as if I were looking at the archetypal image of the woman who surrenders to the craft of the seducer, who opens her heart and releases the bounty of her love in a most ill-advised way. 'There is no such thing as happiness. No relief in hate. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. There is no beauty in sadness. Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Nouwen, Every age, every culture, every ethos and tradition has a style of its own, has the varieties of gentleness and harshness, of beauty and cruelty that are appropriate to it. Contrary to what I had expected, I found that they had a hardscrabble beauty and grace. 40 Inspirational Beauty Quotes | Reader's Digest She displays a rare and remarkable beauty because she has learned to wait upon God. And to try to ease the suffering of others. Then it softened into tones long, slow, and patient and reminded men of the faintest stars trembling dimly in defiance of a ravening dark. Beauty is in the crack in the sidewalk, in the short stretches of silence, at that moment when theres no distance between you and the person you love. It is apt to become morbid. And in between the amazing and awful its ordinary and mundane and routine. The Lotus flower represents a higher state of mind, a strong spirit cultivated far from the suffering and temptations of this muddied world that personifies beauty through the present moment. It is far better to endure the pain now and enjoy later. "There is no need to run, strive, search or struggle. Beauty is everywhere, even still. Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Jojo Moyes, the great experiences which form him, arise out of the discontinuity and disharmony between man and the world. Made with <3. Forgetting is painful. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. Adam Perry Art, May your life be like a wildflower, Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. You can neglect it, you can shut it down. I feel the suffering of millions. On the contrary, beauty remains, even in misfortune. Death. Beauty, when you accept you will flower in the pain, you will flower in your suffering. If you want to become beautiful, you must be able to suffer too. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty. The broken will always be able to love harder than most. Itll help you heal and smile when nobodys looking. 500 matching entries found. Today she has become ugly in her ingenuity, superficial and heartless in her knowledge. The best of friends cannot really understand the battle you are going through or the wounds inflicted on you. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. The most beautiful people we know are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are. Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke (1960). The saying bittersweet is used to describe a, Read More Bittersweet Life Quotes The Good & Bad of LifeContinue, Amanda Gorman is an American poet and activist from Los Angeles, California. EVENTS. To avoid suffering, one must not love. Then comes the alchemist Mind who transmutes the symbols. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. 2) Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. Dont let them take that from you., We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer., Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart., At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze., When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever., Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. Will the day ever come when beauty and knowledge, ingenuity and virtue, and weakness of body and strength of spirit will be united in a woman? He didn't have to rewrite my story from one of beauty to one of brokenness and create a whole new brand of beauty. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity Edwin Hubbell Chapin, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 7. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. Even with the heartache, trauma, tragedy, every terrible thing. "We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.". Thats just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. May the following quotes at least inspire you, empathize with you and encourage you to move from suffering to more happiness in life. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. "Outer beauty turns the head, but inner beauty turns the heart." ~ Helen J. Russell. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . Her happiness is out of reach of those who have wronged her. I can say it certain now: All is grace. Life Inner Beauty Experience Overcoming Challenges . AUTHOR. ""Beauty, you must learn it. I raged at God, at nature, at whatever fate had brought our family to such depths. Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone . Richard Dahlstrom, Well, surely you know. It is by suffering that human beings become angels. Wendell Berry, And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty, the spray of their moment's happiness is flung so high and dazzling over the wide sea of suffering, that the light of it, spreading its radiance, touches others too with its enchantment. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity., But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more., Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. Katerina Stoykova Klemer, The Lotus in Buddhism is a sacred symbol that represents purity and resurrection as attributes that develop through a spiritual awakening of the self. in the joy Our goal is to help you by delivering amazing quotes to bring inspiration, personal growth, love and happiness to your everyday life. ""I would not be here with you if I yielded because of the Prince ""Yes, you could be here with me. Once you have been in the dark, you learn to appreciate everything that shines. Zachry K. Douglas, 5. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. If you find it, please share with me. Its not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Mother Teresa was a tragedy walking on the earth, just like hundreds of million other Catholics. Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.