Suffering & Wisdom

Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) was a master storyteller and she summarized the human race so beautifully - "To be a person is to have a story to tell."

“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...”

“The cure for anything is salt water -

sweat, tears, or the sea”

“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”

Comments

Quote Collector said…
"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.".....author unknown,
found in a book by Philip Yancey
jane said…
I find it encouraging to know that we have the freedom to choose our defining stories. When our story has an unhealthy plot, we can replace it with one that has a plot worth living.