In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
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¢ People are always telling me to smile, like smiling is going to just take away all the hurt and pain. Well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
You can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you've lived with them and shared experience: sadness,… — Stan Barstow Copy Share Image
Love and happiness is like a lamplight. Its mostly shaded, hidden from seeing its true beauty but only sometimes can it be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Faking a smile can only hurt yourself, with so much problem to fear and so much pain to bear. At the end,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I won't directly ask you for help when I'm feeling very upset, and I'm not asking you to read my mind but… — Takia Watson Copy Share Image
I can tell by the sound of your voice that you do not want me. I can by the way you act… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I cry here late in the cold dark night, Remembering all the things that were said. Seeing how many times I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For all our mutual experience Our separate conclusions are the same Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity Our reason coexists… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
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As adults, we have many inhibitions against crying. We feel it is an expression of weakness, or femininity or of childishness. Actually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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