Destiny Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Pain, Anger, and Sorrow no matter how brief can feel an eternity. Pleasure, Happiness, and Joy however long seem but temporary instances. Live your…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Every moment of enjoyment Brings to some one else a sorrow, But your sorrow gladdens no one, For from sorrow naught but sorrow springs.”

— August Strindberg

“There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--”

— Dante Alighieri

“Sorrow is the darkest, most intense form of passion hidden in the recesses of the human spirit.”

— Andrea Randall

“There is no sorrow I have thought about more than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet…

— George Eliot

“We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.”

— Ross Lockridge Jr

“The true nature of sorrow is boredom.”

— Manu Joseph

“All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.”

— Aristotle

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton

“You and I cannot really expect to glide through life . . . naively petitioning, 'Lord, give me experience but not grief, a deeper…

— Neal maxwell