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  • The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com
  • The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2014
  • Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious of sorrow and happiness - that is perfect virtue. One, without change - that is perfect repose. Without any obstruction - that is the perfection of the unconditioned. Holding no relations with the external world, - that is perfection of the negative state. Without blemish of any kind, - that is the perfection of purity.

    Hate   Heart   Loss  
  • The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

    Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell
  • 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.
  • Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

    Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics
  • 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  
  • Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.

    Clouds   Sorrow   Twins  
  • 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  
  • The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

  • Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

  • And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2384, Manonmani Publishers
  • There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

    Sad   Happy   Sorrow  
    "Le Saule" by Alfred de Musset,
  • Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

    Heart   Long   Childhood  
    Soren Kierkegaard's journal entry, 1847.
  • 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.

  • The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

    Washington Irving (1840). “The Works of Washington Irving”, p.245
  • Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

    Happiness   Smile   Sad  
    "Remember" l. 13 (1862)
  • Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com
  • In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.104, Advaita Ashrama
  • We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  • The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

  • The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

    Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

    Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”
  • Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!

  • The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

    Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”
  • Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

    Distance   Black   Sorrow  
    "Hesperus", XIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 733-736), 1922.
  • Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

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