Big things Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

— Honore de Balzac

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

— Alexandre Dumas

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and…

— Henri Nouwen

“Joy is as thorny and sharp as any of the dark emotions. To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart,…

— Brené Brown

I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have forgotten who…

— Richard Bach

Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears…

— Frederick Buechner

Sorrow is the child of too much joy

— Chinese Proverbs

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel…

— Kristin Hannah

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success…

— Marianne Williamson

Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Sometimes small things lead to great joys.

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon