All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
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V.C. ANDREWS No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE Battered and bruised, this heart holds so much pain,
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ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
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JOSEPH JOUBERT God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th...
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STACEY BALLIS No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
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ALICE HOFFMAN I wondered how it could be that two people who had loved could yet have such a misconception of each...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a t...
WENDELL BERRY In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Birth is not a beginning; it’s a continuation. That lends tremendous comfort because we then under...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The question of desirable grief and pain or the necessity for it must also be faced. [Are] growth an...
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW He'd had to go through so many possessions, things that exploded smally with memories over the last ...
CYNAN JONES Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossibl...
LYNDA CHELDELIN FELL Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments c...
SAM KEAN Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamenta...
BUDDHA For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
UNKNOWN Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace betwee...
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KELLY JONES There is a look and a grace and an elegance and a power that goes with diving, ... You can find powe...
DENNIS TAYLOR If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great
opportunities. Se...
NAPOLEAN HILL No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face;
Young beauti...
DR. JOHN DONNE It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief ...
ALAIN DE BOTTON At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabul...
DANTE ALIGHIERI Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in know...
JOHN MUIR That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach o...
BHAGAVAD GITA Such intense beauty; our planet, so delicately floating in synchronicity, within this universe that ...
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ETHAN COEN Everyone holds fire in their heart; All you ever need to do is to unleash that fire and let the whol...
HARDIK GALA Thought of the night***
True fact about humans with true and soft heart...that those who cry wh...
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True fact about humans with true and soft heart...that those who cry wh...
GURUSHARAN SINGH THOUGHTOFTHENIGHT.BLOGSPOT.IN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment...
A.J. DARKHOLME Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro,
In all the raging impotence of woe.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM "Christmas Globes have scenes that touch the heart, such as the one displaying The Nativity of the C...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN This is the sacred secret of love. Love a person for their heart and only their heart, and you will ...
SUZY KASSEM The grace of silence-enduring hard times.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I think that Spanish people are showing again their strength, their solidarity, and the common effor...
JOSE AZNAR Despite all the things we all experience, like heartbreak and pain, it takes being able to get throu...
JASON PETERS Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and th...
GEORGE W. BUSH The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER 'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it ta...
JEROME CHARYN There is beauty all around us..... It just depends what lens you are looking through....
Changing yo...
SARA DANN Pain and grief have been kept buried for ages, bred in secrecy and shame, wrapped by an ongoing cons...
FRANCO SANTORO The grace for each day is sufficient to accomplish a daily task.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA As with all young ones, a deeper perception comes clearer with time... Roe'vaash recieved the grace ...
K. FARRELL ST. GERMAIN I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passio...
OSCAR WILDE We need everyone in America to be able to have a vaccine that will protect them and their children a...
MIKE LEAVITT And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own desp...
AESCHYLUS Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in a divine manner, and he shines out to them in all t...
MEISTER ECKHART All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each...
JIM BISHOP Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur th...
WILLIAM JAMES The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any...
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI I think the purest of souls, those with the most fragile of hearts, must be meant for a short life. ...
EMM COLE Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and...
MITCH ALBOM Real beauty has no boundaries’.
PRAJAKTA MHADNAK It's been great for all of us, and I wish each one of them great success in their careers. Especiall...
DAMIAN WILLIAMS One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothin...
THOMAS SOWELL Hema Malini and Nutan were my childhood crushes! I met Hemaji once when dad took me to the set of a ...
ROHIT SHETTY I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, a...
CORY MONTEITH Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see...
MATTHEW FOX He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn...
LILLI JOLGREN DAY Beauty is not static. You cannot point your finger at something and say there’s beauty. Like all n...
ANURADHA BHATTACHARYYA We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to ou...
WALT DISNEY Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, ...
SIMONE WEIL There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace require...
PAWAN MISHRA Friends have all things in common.
PLATO We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go togeth...
HENRY BROMEL You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...
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Yes, you do."
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
CORMAC MCCARTHY In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
CORMAC MCCARTHY He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula...
CORMAC MCCARTHY They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ...
CORMAC BUTLER Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner.
CORMAC BUTLER In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ...
CORMAC BUTLER Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
MELISSA MCCARTHY To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh...
MELISSA MCCARTHY As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ...
ERIN MCCARTHY Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”
“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY