“To be alive at all is
to have scars."
- John Steinbeck,
born on this day in 1902.
“To be alive at all is to have scars." - John Steinbeck, born on this day in 1902.
“a man who has been at constant feud with misfortunes acquires a skin calloused by suffering.”
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Scars and bruises are left behind on it, and if one doesn’t erase them completely, it will no longer be bruises that are found there when one receives further blows on that spot, but wounds.
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
To be sure, people tend to see only the stubble fields of transitoriness but overlook and forget the full granaries of the past into which they have brought the harvest of their lives: the deeds done, the loves loved, and last but not least, the sufferings they have gone through with courage and dignity.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
I wish I could say you get used to people dying. I never did. I don't want to. It tears a hole through me whenever somebody I love dies, no matter the circumstances. But I don't want it to "not matter". I don't want it to be something that just passes. My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. An... See more
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