“When someone is grieving He had too much respect for sorrow to approach it with curiosity. He had learned to put off… — MacDonald George Copy Share Image
Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Being a Christ follower means being acquainted with sorrow. We must know sorrow to be able to fully appreciate joy. Joy costs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly. Remember my words, for although I shall talk… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine… — Gibran Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
There are those among you who, although young, have already suffered a full measure of grief and sorrow. My heart is filled… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
It is harmful to remember previous sins in detail. For if they bring you sorrow, they will estrange you from hope, but… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“People sometimes say that sorrow is mental but longing is physical. One is a wound, the other an amputated limb, a withered… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Beyond the Years I the years the answer lies, Beyond where brood the grieving skies And Night drops tears. Where Faith rod-chastened… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
“I had a deep and abiding love for the idea that this life is not something that we are forced to endure… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Being alone is bearable, it's having a constant aching heart, thoughts of you tear me apart. Lay in bed remembering what you… — Wes E Copy Share Image
When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel… — John Bosco Copy Share Image
I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things.… — Kip Moore Copy Share Image
She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“The dream was marvellous but the terror was great; we must treasure the dream whatever the terror; for the dream has shown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Feeling sorrow is fine, he says. It's right. But you need to use those feelings, channel them into action. Just as you… — Moira Young Copy Share Image
Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
Under every burden, …God will slip His hand. Every gulf of sorrow, …His great love has spanned, Into every heart-ache, …God will… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
“Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We can be so heavily invested in our tales of sorrow and woe that we have no clue how much repeating that… — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns,… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found,… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... Saeed's father wept only when he was alone in his room, silently, without tears, his body seized as though by a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
