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“Sometimes you look up and there seems to be so many more stars than ever before. More. They burn brighter and they shine longer and they never vanish into your periphery when you turn your head. It’s as if they come out for us to remind us that their light took so long to come to us, that if we never had the patience to wait, we never would have seen them tonight, like this.
That as much as it hurts, sometimes it’s all you can do, wait, endure, keep shining knowing that eventually, your light will reach where it is supposed to reach and shine who it is supposed to shine for.” -Unknown
“Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don’t numb themselves to really living.” -Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.” -John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” -Seneca
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” -Lao Tzu
“The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things…stop being a glass. Become a lake.” – Hindu teaching, as told in Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening
“Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.” – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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