Quote from Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Quote from Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESSBefore you were born,And were still too tiny forThe human eye to see,You won the race for lifeFrom among 250 million competitors.And yet,How fast you have forgottenYour strength,When your very existenceIs proof of your greatness.You were born a winner,A warrior,One who defied the oddsBy surviving the most gruesomeBattle of them all.And now that you are a giant,Why do you even doubt victoryAgainst smaller numbers,And wider margins?The only walls that exist,Are those you have placed in your mind.And whatever obstacles you conceive,Exist only because you have forgottenWhat you have alreadyAchieved.Poetry by Suzy Kassem
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Quote from Sid Brown, Journey of One Buddhist Nun the: Even Against the Wind
… the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and that there is a path to that cessation.
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Quote from David Rovics
They’ll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover.
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Quote from Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of “ZEN Mind, Beginner’s Mind”
A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, “Why is there so much suffering?”Suzuki Roshi replied, “No reason.
Quote from Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
A thought is harmless unless we believe it. Itâs not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that itâs true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that weâve been attaching to, often for years.
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Quote from Mirabai Starr, The Showings of Julian of Norwich: A New Translation
Your God would never punish you for being a human being: this life itself is your penance…But it is also more than that: it is a crucible for transformation. Each trial, every loss, is an opportunity for you to meet suffering with love and make of it an offering, a prayer. The minute you lift your pain like a candle the darkness vanishes, and mercy comes rushing in to heal you.
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Quote from Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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Quote from Akutagawa Ryunosuke
NĂŁo conseguia pensar em nada que desejasse especialmente na vida, excepto aquelas faĂscas de cor pĂșrpura – aquelas flores de fogo desabrochando selvaticamente -; daria a vida para poder segurĂĄ-las-
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Quote from Richard B. Hays
God has chosen to save the world through the cross, through the shameful andpowerless death of the crucified Messiah. If that shocking event is therevelation of the deepest truth about the character of God, then our whole wayof seeing the world is turned upside down⊠all values are transformed⊠Godrefuses to play games of power and prestige on human terms.
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