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• True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Sin, Break

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.332

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• As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid

  Alexander MacLaren

  Prayer, Heart, Agony

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

  Martial

  Unseen

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.33, Delphi Classics

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• To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

  Jack Kornfield

  Joy, Attention, World

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• A friend of mine said to me not long ago, "Terry you are married to sorrow." I looked at him and said, "No, I am not married to sorrow, I just choose not to look away." To not avert our eyes to suffering is to trust the power of presence. Joy emerges through suffering. Suffering is a component of joy. Whether we are sitting with a loved one dying or witnessing dolphins side-by-side watching the oil burning in the Gulf of Mexico, to be present with the world is to be alive. I think of Rilke once again, "Beauty is the beginning of terror." We can breathe our way toward courage.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Eye, Thinking, Long

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• Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Sacrifice, Depth, Glory

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.239, A&C Black

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• Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

  Mother Teresa

  Sadness, Sin, Serving God

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• Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.

  Khalil

  Teaching, Men, Despair

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• Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Prayer, Destiny, Light

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• I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?

  Rumi

  Sweet, Drinking, Grief

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• Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?

  Zhuangzi

  Loss, Night, Men

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• Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

  Halldór Laxness

  Land, Sky, Joy

  "World Light" by Halldór Laxness, translated by Magnus Magnusson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens), 2002.

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• We should all visit the sick. When they are in sorrow and suffering, it is a real help and benefit to have a friend come. Happiness is a great healer to those who are ill....This has a greater effect than the remedy itself. You must always have this thought of love and affection when you visit the ailing and afflicted.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Real, Sick, Suffering

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• There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

  Isak Dinesen

  Gratitude, Drunk, Heartfelt

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• The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.

  Sharon Gannon

  Yoga, Teaching, Practice

  Sharon Gannon, David Life (2002). “Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul”, Random House LLC

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• To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat
  comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth
  all the years of sorrow that are to come.

  Jack Gilbert

  Years, Silence, Sound

  Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.3, Knopf

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• Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color is above all lyrical. He feels color and he reveals his feelings through colors; he does not see them in isolation. He does not just see yellow, red and blue and violet; he sees sorrow and screaming and melancholy and decay.

  Sigbjørn Obstfelder

  Art, Writing, Blue

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• We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Struggle, Joy, Thousand

  Elizabeth Kim (2000). “Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan”

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• In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.

  Heber J. Grant

  Blessing, Temptation, Praying

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• Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Light, Hot And Cold

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.35, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sadness, Night, Years

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• Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
  And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
  Eagerly, I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
  From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Leonore -
  For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore -
  Nameless here for evermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Angel, Names

  "The Raven" l. 7 (1845)

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• 'THIS ROOM HAS MYSTERY LIKE A TRANCE' This room has mystery like a trance Of wine ; forget-me-nots of you Are chair and couch, the books your Fingers touched. And now that you Are absent here the silence scrapes A secret rust from everything; While sudden wreaths of sorrow's Dust uncover emptiness like halls To stumble through, and terror falls

  Kenneth Patchen

  Book, Fall, Wine

  Kenneth Patchen (1968). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

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• For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Law, Return

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.83

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• Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

  Tony Hillerman

  Spring, Reality, Thinking

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