When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in…

The gifts of grace increase as the sorrows increase.

— Rose of Lima

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

— Joseph Campbell

“Words are the mirrors of our discontents merely; they contain all the huge unhatched eggs of the world's sorrows.”

— Lawrence Durrell

While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in…

— Timothy Keller

“My sounds [crying] were small and muffled but obvious. No one paid any attention. It was the way we had become. In a world…

— Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade…

— John Lasseter

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

— Boris Pasternak

Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken…

— Anonymous

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

— Nancy Astor

I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it ...

— Chico Xavier

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is…

— Tom Petty

“Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point…

— Leo Tolstoy

Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

— Thomas A. Edison

Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.

— Walt Whitman