The Succession Of Changes From The Cradle To The Grave.

(Today I visited my father's grave.)

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.”

- Charles Dickens


But the succession of living to the dead cannot be said to be gentle or easy, and we marked clearly the end of that progress.

- Ghostwise

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“If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today”

- Joyce Chapman


I know I should be starting a new dream, but my heart says "hang to the old dream a little longer."

- Ghostwise

The Virtue Of Suffering.

My personal trials have also taught me the value of unmerited suffering. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways that I could respond to my situation: either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. Recognizing the necessity for suffering I have tried to make of it virtue. If only to save myself from bitterness, I have attempted to see my personal ordeals as an opportunity to transform myself and heal the people involved in the tragic situation, which now obtains. I have lived these last few years with the conviction that unearned suffering is redemptive.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.,


If I cannot avoid suffering anyhow, let me at least learn something from it.

- Ghostwise

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"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."

- Henri F. Amiel


For if we don't learn from our suffering, we are likely to suffer it again.

- Ghostwise

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