“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had?
Why must the sun be darkened before we feel how genuinely impossible it is to live without its warmth?
Why within the misery of absence does love grow by such bounds?
Why must life be this way?
When suffering does appear in our lives, we should remember that, beneath its negative surface, there is an opportunity for growth and deepening.
It is a strange existence where such suffering makes us far better people.
Richelle E. Goodrich
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Very touching.
Thanks for your comment…..Julia