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  • And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

  • If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

    Thinking   Sorrow   Wish  
    Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.53, Courier Corporation
  • This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

  • 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
  • Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

  • …always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

    Hurt   Pain   Comforting  
    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne's House of Dreams”, p.147, Gideon House Books
  • To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet

    Wine   Night   Heaven  
    Li Po, “A Mountain Revelry”
  • Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

    Men   Wings   Bird  
  • Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today

    Bad Day   Dark   Dwelling  
    Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby
  • I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it.

    Adversity   Sorrow   May  
  • Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

    Sweet   Sunshine   Sorrow  
    William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.47
  • For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly Canaan. In neither case were the promises of God at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecration, and strife among the Lord's professed people that have kept us in this world of sin and sorrow so many years

    Israel   Years   Land  
  • Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So sing! The song of rejoicing softens hard hearts. It makes tears of godly sorrow flow from them. Singing summons the Holy Spirit. Happy praises offered in simplicity and love lead the faithful to complete harmony, without discord. Don't stop singing.

    Song   Fall   Heart  
  • The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

    Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.270
  • Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That's because you ain't got to go through it no more.

  • A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

    Heart   Hands   Sorrow  
  • Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.

    Pain   Joy   Sorrow  
  • If we love a person, we love him, and whatever he may do will not affect our love. It may cause us pain if he does evil, because we love him; it may cause us sorrow and suffering; but it cannot affect our love.

    Pain   Evil   Suffering  
    Charles Webster Leadbeater (1920). “The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals”
  • I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

  • After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.

    Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.134, Revell
  • There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

    Giving   Sorrow   Flavor  
  • You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

    Children   Stupid   Dirty  
  • Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

  • Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

    Song   Heart   Sorrow  
    Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.24, Library of America
  • The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

    Real   Sacrifice   Giving  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Problem of Education”
  • All around us people are suffering from stress, fear, sorrow, pain, and fear of future suffering, especially death. None of these are natural to us, because we are eternal spirit souls. Humanity has been controlled through the fear of death.

    Pain   Stress   People  
  • Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found, it must be guarded. Never must we confound it with pleasure. Nor think sorrow its exact opposite.

    Mary Lavin (1981). “Selected stories”, Viking Pr
  • We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

    Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.73, Shambhala Publications
  • I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

    Heart   Joy   Sorrow  
  • Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

    Faith   Religious   Pain  
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