“Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked... The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... I say… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
First you cry a few times a year then you end up crying once in a couple of months, upon those tears… — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
“The pain of love does not break hearts, it merely seasons them. The disappointed heart revives itself and grows meaty and piquant.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
“Yes, all of this I thought about, all of this filled me with sorrow and a sense of helplessness, and if there… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“As long as there is thirst in you, water can quench it; but you can live a kind of life in which… — Osho Copy Share Image
“For fuck's sake, I'd killed my best friend, first with carelessness and then with ambition. I started texting back: - you have… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different,… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest… — William McFee Copy Share Image
How do you recover from an extraordinary loss? Take stock of the loved ones around you. Hug them, love them, and cherish… — Joseph Simmons Copy Share Image
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Sake The jewel which brightly shines at night Is precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake, Drowning one's… — Reiko Chiba Copy Share Image
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“ All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadness… so cry sometimes and let go of… — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days,… — Lucius Shepard Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
As for inflicting our sorrow on other people, one does not want to go around blathering and crying all the time. But… — Martha Whitmore Hickman Copy Share Image
A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is from zero to one, sorrow to pain and love to happiness, passing all along with smile on face despite grief… — Santosh Kalwar 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
People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about… — Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Copy Share Image
The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill… — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
