Bev Denese

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”
― Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Thinking Like the Universe: The Sufi Path of Awakening

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
― Mark Twain