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• We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

  Robert William Dale

  Sad, Evil, Forgiving

  Robert William Dale (1877). “Nine Lectures on Preaching: Delivered at Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut”

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• Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sad, Sorrow, World

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• One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

  Erich Fromm

  Compassion, Curiosity, World

  ABC TV, May 25, 1958.

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• I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Sad, Flower, Ex Boyfriend

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• First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great

  Alyssa Milano

  Winning, Feeling Sad, Firsts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying.

  Dalai Lama

  Long, People, Cry

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• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Women, Feminism

  1975 Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

  Kevin Bacon

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Alanis Morissette

  Anger, Inspiration, Confusion

  Energy Times interview, www.energytimes.com. July-August 2013.

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• Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

  Yoko Ono

  Pain, Creativity, Creative

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• Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Reality, Men, Evil

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• A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Space, Waste, Misery

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• Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

  Lord Byron

  Tales, Saddest

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.

  Fred Rogers

  Grief, Grieving, Expression

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Father, Home

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• So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love, Inspirational, Heartache

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Sad, I Miss You

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• There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sad, Eye, Humanity

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.52, City Lights Books

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• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Change, Sad

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Happiness, Sad, Being Happy

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, God, Christian

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• That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

  John Berger

  Beautiful, Nature, Believe

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.569, Vintage

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• Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

  James MacArthur

  Walt, Merchants

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• When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

  Yann Martel

  Sad, Pain, Unbearable

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

  John Green

  Hipster, Alaska, Unhappy Person

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