Thomas a Kempis Quotes

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

Love is proved in the letting go.

Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.