Tag Archives: Quotes about Suffering

“Try to Praise the Mutilated World” by Adam Zagajewski

Funeral poem finds something to celebrate in the hardest of times
Posted on August 22, 2016 by Juniper Quin (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

“Try to Praise the Mutilated World” (2002) by Polish poet Adam Zagajewski resonates with his characteristic themes of night; dreams; history and time; infinity and eternity; silence and death. By facing the world’s sorrow with clear eyes, yet turning again … Continue reading →

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“You need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”

- Eckhart Tolle
Posted on April 5, 2016 by Juniper Quin (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

- Ben Okri
Posted on March 29, 2016 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds
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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

- Kahlil Gibran
Posted on February 23, 2016 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds
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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”

-Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
Posted on November 6, 2012 by Kelly Larsen (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

Photo Credit: GoodFon

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“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”

-Roland Barthes
Posted on August 28, 2012 by Kelly Larsen (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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