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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to…
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,…
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future,…
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much…
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,…
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point…
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness…
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are,…
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Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
— B. C. Forbes
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The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run…
— Richard Sibbes
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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
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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
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We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our…
— Marcel Proust
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But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in…
— Samuel Johnson
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We…
— Tara Brach
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No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that…
— Christian Wiman
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