Sorrow Quotes - Page 26

• Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

  Barbara Sher

  Mean, Love Life, Becoming

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• Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Here I Am

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2011). “Faust”, p.31, Bantam Classics

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• Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Joy, Divides

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2014

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• If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Joy, Saddened, Ifs

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• It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Stress, Able

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• Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

  Albert Schweitzer

  Laughter, Voice, Giving

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Comfort, Three

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.381, Discovery House

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• Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again.

  Wally Schirra

  Dirty, Biblical, Pride

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• We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Father, Parenting, Contentment

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• I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grief, Wind, Soul

  "Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon".

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• Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

  Hippocrates

  Sports, Sweet, Laughter

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• And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Thinking, Age, Disease

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 6

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• One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
  And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Bending Down

  'When You Are Old'

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• I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope
  and product of my own strength.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fashion, Aliens, Talent

  "Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 4, 1910.

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• I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you
  miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, People, Forever

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• In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might,
  Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

  George MacDonald

  Father, Joy, Delight

  George MacDonald (2015). “A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Creativity, Mean

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• What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Joy, Human Life

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• Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Life, Friendship, Meaningful

  Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers

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• Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and anxiety are the result of a break in our communication.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Pain, Disappointment, Communication

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• The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Pain, Disappointment

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Death, Children, Spring

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• Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

  Laozi

  Peace, War, Men

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• Nobody can see the trouble I see, nobody knows my sorrow.

  Soe Hok Gie

  Adversity, Trouble, Indonesia

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• God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood over our sorrows, the darkness deepens about us and creeps into our heart, and our strength changes to weakness. But, if we turn away from the gloom, and take up the tasks and duties to which God calls us, the light will come again, and we shall grow stronger.

  Lettie Cowman

  Heart, Light, Darkness

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