"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
posted by Michelle at 8:12 AM
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posted by Michelle at 8:12 AM
3 Comments:
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
Ben Okri
It is in the overcoming of our suffering that we grow as a person.
I think that there is more suffering than there is overcoming.
Either that or just a few people are doing a heck of a lot of complaining.
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