"The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts"

-- D.T. Suzuki

#Religious Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Heart Quotes

“When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution.”
“We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.420
“Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.”
“Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.”
“Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.285
“Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.”
“It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.”

Source : "Norma Jean the Termite Queen". Book by Sheila Ballantyne, 1975.
“The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

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