“The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”— Edmund Burke, amazon.com
“It wasn’t about believing this or that, it wasn’t even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a s…”— Ben Okri, amazon.com
“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“...the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever it was that had tried to hurt me.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.com