Sorrow And Happiness Quotes

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  Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.

  Yogaswami

  Clouds, Sorrow, Twins

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• 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

  Wisdom, Inspirational Love, Heart

  Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

  Carl Jung

  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.

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

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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

  Ashley Montagu

  Happiness, Happy, Being Happy

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”

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• 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

  Two, Life And Death, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.104, Advaita Ashrama

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Being Happy, Health, Healing

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

  Eudora Welty

  Positive, Happiness, Morning

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Happiness, Men, Inner Peace

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2384, Manonmani Publishers

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• Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Happiness, Happy, Kissing

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• 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

  Inspirational Love, Laughter, Wine

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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  When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2014

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

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

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• Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Grief, Wine

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

  Jean Paul

  Distance, Black, Sorrow

  "Hesperus", XIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 733-736), 1922.

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• Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

  Christina Rossetti

  Happiness, Smile, Sad

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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