“There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connexion; and why should I describe a sorrow which all… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You've got all these parents who are projecting their pathologies of fear onto their kids and those kids are understandably messed up.… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“From darkness; take me unto Light. O God! Help me today, make my maiden flight. From sorrow; give me the strength to… — Madhavi Sood alias Madhavi Mohandas Copy Share Image
Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“It was the answer to the wrong mystery--the mystery I didn't ever want to solve. And so we sat there in the… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Gabriel Edward Mackie, born with soulful maturity and an intrinsic sense of empathy, gazed at life through a poetic contemplative lens relishing… — JoDee Neathery Copy Share Image
Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands,… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Learning kindness late in life was a kind of torture. The pain often came from the past, form kindnesses withheld. The knife… — Victor Lodato Copy Share Image
Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow … Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Right you guessed the rising morrow And scorned to tread the mire you must: Dust's your wages, son of sorrow, But men… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the… — James Allen Copy Share Image
In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered.… — Rachel L. Schade Copy Share Image
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Birds of sorrow may fly over our heads, But we must prevent them from building their nests, For they can cause pain… — Nadine Sadaka Boulos Copy Share Image
