"No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort."

-- Boyd K. Packer

#Spiritual Quotes #Pain Quotes #Effort Quotes

“With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.”

Source : Dan Ariely (2013). “The Irrational Bundle”, p.43, HarperCollins UK
“Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.”

Source : Margaret M. Lock (1994). “Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America”, p.35, Univ of California Press
“Sometimes I remind myself of all the things that make me feel so blessed. And then I remind myself to remind myself more often.”
“That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a long time. I felt rejection from the white community. Couldn't understand why the pigmentation of my skin kept me from doing. Everybody always told me "You're going to be something." And of course, I began to raise questions about why it is that white folks treat us the way they do. The breakdown was very vivid. I just all of a sudden felt like I had been overcome by a train.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.”

Source : Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.196, Wesleyan University Press
“On the sly, scoping for love.”
“Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His will and direction, even when the direction might not have been our personal preference.”
“Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.”

You may also like: