“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”
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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130 <!-- also p. 156 -->
Context: Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
“Who suffers or has suffered has a different heart. A heart capable of helping and loving.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Chi soffre o ha sofferto ha un cuore diverso. Un cuore capace di aiutare ed amare.
Source: prevale.net
Frederick Ahl (1941) Professor of classics and comparative literature
Translation of Virgil's Aeneid (2007), Book I, lines 198–199 and 202–203
Book 7, Ch. 50 (trans. George Rawlinson)
Variant translation: It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
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François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 396.
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Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Cassandra (1860)
Context: Give us back our suffering, we cry to Heaven in our hearts — suffering rather than indifferentism; for out of nothing comes nothing. But out of suffering may come the cure. Better have pain than paralysis! A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore!