#erin

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. ↗

— John Berger

#psychology #suffering #experience

I believe in people, especially suffering people. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#especially #i #i believe #i believe in #people

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering. ↗

— Catherine Bell

#every #flattering #i #marine #met

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#countries #developing #limited #nor #suffering

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#changed #i #mind #wanted

I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't. ↗

— Dana Hill

#felt #i #mountain #nervous #no reason

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want. ↗

— Brian Williams

#get #giving #going #pandering #people

I do engineering, not religion. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#i #i do #religion

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#endless #our #sin #suffer #suffering