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  • Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

    Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind
  • I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

  • The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making you happiest or irritating you the most, those who have the greatest effect on your mood and even your state of health are those closest to hand.

    Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Bond: How to Fix Your Falling-Down World”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
  • Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

    Happiness   Sad   Happy  
    "The Art of Living". Interview with Gordon Young in 1960. "C.G. Jung Speaking". Book edited by William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, archive.org. 1977.
  • Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

    Life   Happiness   Sad  
  • Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.

  • I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.

    Real   Sadness   Thinking  
    Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.
  • For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

  • Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

    Love   Happiness   Sad  
  • We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

    Energy Times interview, www.energytimes.com. July-August 2013.
  • I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

    Love   Happiness   Sad  
  • I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

    "Alexander McQueen’s 'Savage Beauty' At Metropolitan Museum Of Art (PHOTOS)" by Samantha Critchell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.
  • Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

    Sad   Mean   Vegas  
  • Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

  • Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

  • We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

    Love   Life   Happiness  
  • There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

    Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing
  • Every man has his secret sorrows.

  • You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

    Sad   Peace   Truth  
  • There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

  • Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield.

    Sadness   Warrior   Night  
    Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.36, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD
  • One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

    ABC TV, May 25, 1958.
  • The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

  • You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

    Sadness   Want   Emotion  
  • It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

    Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1417, Barbour Publishing
  • Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

  • Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

    Sad   Death   Silence  
  • Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

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