"The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it."

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Source : Jean Nicolas Grou (1881). “The hidden life of the soul [by J.N. Grou]. From the Fr. by the author of A Dominican artist. From the Fr. of J.N. Grou, ed. by W.H. Hutchings”

Jean Grou

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“You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (2010). “Gargoyles: A Novel”, p.19, Vintage
“Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.”

Source : Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.55, Anchor
“One nice thing about L.A. is that you can work here in privacy, but that also works against you because you can get forgotten here, too. I think in New York, it's hard to be left alone. It's hard to have privacy whereas here, you can have it.”
“When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy.”

Source : "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
“Life has more imagination than we do.”
“I look around and see the things I have, and I remember not having them. That is one thing that keeps me grounded. I'm definitely the same person I was. . . . I never lose me, I never lose the real person.”
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
“As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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