Unbearable Quotes - Page 16

• In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.

  Joan Baez

  Moving, Eye, Turkeys

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• There's nothing like a deadline to get the old blood flowing. All the juices, really. It doesn't follow, if you think about it. You'd assume certain things ... certain activities ... would become unimportant. Certain betrayals would become unbearable. But they don't really. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything takes on a new light. The impossible becomes possible, desirable even. It's quite remarkable.

  Walter Wykes

  Betrayal, Thinking, Opposites

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• You may be going through a trial so overwhelming that it's borderline unbearable. You want to see the end of the tunnel. Which is only natural, because once we see that little speck of light, we feel we can make it through to the finish. But God's tunnels are often twisting, too complex and dark to see the light for many days. In such settings He says, "In that dark, twisting, seemingly endless period of time, trust Me. Stop running scared! Stop fearing!"

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Running, Dark, Tunnels

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.135, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

  Amy Tan

  Wish, Despair, Misery

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.24, Penguin

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• If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Daughter, Fate, Light

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• Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Wise, Powerful, Purpose

  "This Man Faced Unimaginable Suffering, And Then Wrote The Definitive Book About Happiness" by Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87

  Melody Beattie

  Pain, Light, Joy

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• We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Sorry, Laughing, Way

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• This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

  E. B. White

  Girl, Knowing, Giving

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.220, Cornell University Press

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• From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

  Arthur Golden

  Men, Giving, Dancer

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• I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

  Sophia Loren

  Mother, Thinking, Changed

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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