Compassion Quote by Joseph B. Wirthlin

Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.…

— Abraham Lincoln

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

— Sophocles

“I stopped trying to rank sorrow, realized that the world has sorrow enough for all of us, and when some of it falls to…

— Beth Ann Fennelly

“Sorrow is an inseparable dimension of our human experience. We suffer after a loss because we are human. And in our suffering, we are…

— Alan D. Wolfelt

Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also…

— Emily Giffin

“Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn.”

— Lama Surya Das

But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too…

— Eric G. Wilson

endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh…

— Pearl S. Buck

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

— Juliet Marillier

The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh…

— Theodore T. Munger