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#1

“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
― Ramana Maharshi

tags: awakening, awareness, enlightenment, giving, inspirational, know-thyself, self-realization, service, spiritual, wisdom-quotes

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#2

“Recently God asked me the same question in a new way, "And if I don't allow you to heal, if I never remove the pain, will you still trust Me?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

tags: chronic-illness, god, heal, pain

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#3

“At a certain moment, the pain is lessened by projecting it into the universe, but the universe is impaired; the pain is more intense when it comes home again, but something in me does not suffer and remains in contact with a universe which is not impaired.

- Simone Weil”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

tags: pain, suffering, transcending, universe-quotes

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#4

“The reality of the world is the result of our attachment. It is the reality of the self which we transfer into things. It has nothing to do with independent reality. That is only perceptible through total detachment. Should only one thread remain, there is still attachment.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

tags: attachment, reality, self-actualization

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#5

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

tags: life-experience, poetry, sorrow

1280 likes

#6

“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, love

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#7

“Within that tired body, lies a soul so persistent in love, repentant in serving others before yourself. I see the person who can sympathize all layers of the human experience. I see you.”
― Karen A. Baquiran

tags: chronic-fatigue-syndrome, chronic-illness, i-see-you, selflessness, sympathy

9 likes

#8

“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”
― Sylvia Plath, Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: acceptance, love

1629 likes

#9

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

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#10

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.”
― Khalil Gibran

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#11

“...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.”
― Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer

tags: death, energy, life, love, persistence, survival

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#12

“I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: art, art-matters, art-therapy, artist, beautiful, chronic-illness, courage, crps, crps-warrior, depth, free-spirit, hope, hopeful, inspiration, inspire, journey, meaningful, stillness, wise-words

18 likes

#13

“To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#14

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
― T.S. Eliot

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#15

“Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

tags: life, progress, renewal

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#16

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

tags: growth, life, maturity

3692 likes

#17

“I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”
― Egon Schiele

tags: care, faith, hope, inspire, joy, kindness, love, peace, play, respect

57 likes

#18

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

tags: freedom, madman, madness, safety

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#19

“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”
― Egon Schiele

tags: bodies, body, burn, egon-schiele, light, lit

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#20

“And yet, for my art and for my loved ones, I will gladly endure to the end.”
― Egon Schiele

tags: art, artists, endurance, love

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#21

“The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart; do not look down on weaker than you. One’s sorrow at the other side of the world can make the entire world suffer; one’s happiness can make the entire world smile.”
― Shams Tabrizi

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#22

“It is true that I am endowed with an absurd sensitiveness, what scratches others tears me to pieces.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Collected Works of Gustave Flaubert

tags: empathy, sensitiveness

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#23

“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. (...) I want, I think, to be omniscient… I think I would like to call myself "The girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be—perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it. I am I—I am powerful—but to what extent? I am I.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

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#24

“If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

tags: woman

49 likes

#25

“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: complaints, histrionics, hysterics, irony, mrs-bennett, suffering

742 likes

#26

“Forget about enlightenment.
Sit down wherever you are
And listen to the wind singing in your veins.
Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in your bones.
Open your heart to who you are, right now,
Not who you would like to be.
Not the saint you’re striving to become.
But the being right here before you, inside you, around you.
All of you is holy.
You’re already more and less
Than whatever you can know.
Breathe out, touch in, let go.”
― John Welwood

52 likes

#27

“Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

tags: attainable, defeat, journey, life, other-side, stop, suffering

353 likes

#28

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: love, suffering

333 likes

#29

“Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

tags: buddha, suffering

91 likes