longtimecoming

all too true.

Pierre Auguste Renoir:
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

John Ruskin:
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.

Virginia Woolf:
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Kahlil Gibran:
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?