It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.
I think people feel safer being sad than they do being joyful.
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
Nothing big ever came from being small.
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.
The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?
Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.
I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
I'm SO glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.
One of the reasons why I fought for my roles is that I think there are so many things about them that are just human, but people like to label them as weird or bad or wrong because they're scared of them. I don't consider them bad - they're girls. They're going to make mistakes, but the films show the repercussions and show that they're going to learn. A lot of people are made to feel bad for being sad, so on top of already being unhappy, you're gonna hate yourself for it.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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