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Enduring Suffering

Suffering is the part of life nobody signs up for and nobody escapes — on finding the ground underneath it.

15 quotes found

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Sorrow is a river. You cannot stop it, only learn to swim.

—Grace OgotAuthor & Politician

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Time does not heal all. It only teaches us to live with the incurable.

—Lya LuftNovelist & Poet

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Let no one uproot the Pumpkin.

—Okot p'BitekPoet & Anthropologist

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Home is where the heart breaks and is rebuilt again and again.

—Rosario FerréNovelist, Writer & Essayist

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We have on this earth what makes life worth living.

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I am from here. I shall live here and die here, and I shall never leave.

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled.

—Elena GarroPlaywright, Novelist & Journalist

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We are the hollow, the empty space, the ghost dance.