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• Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

  Dan Miller

  Optimism, Worry, Looks

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• Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Blessing, People

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• Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Pain, Games, Play

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.99, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

  Gregory Palamas

  Death, God, Christian

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Demand, Safe

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• Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Evil, Tree

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• When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Giving, Wife

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• Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Communication, Giving

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• If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Judging, People, Suffering

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

  Jack Kornfield

  Regret, Loneliness, Frustration

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• In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

  Juliet Marillier

  Despair, Found, Wells

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Seer of Sevenwaters”, p.479, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree...their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining resonance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground

  David Abram

  Fall, Grief, Eye

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• Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ignorance, Weakness, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.347, Manonmani Publishers

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• One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Silence, Joy

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• The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

  Mark Twain

  People, Joy

  Mark Twain “Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books”, Lulu.com

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• Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

  Barbara Sher

  Mean, Love Life, Becoming

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• Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and misery, not because of some great psychological or emotional capacity, but because God's heart has become one with ours.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Pain, War

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.36, HarperCollins

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• Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Here I Am

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2011). “Faust”, p.31, Bantam Classics

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• If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rope, World, Matter

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Evil, Joy, World

  "Myths to Live By".

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• Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Joy, Fever Series

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• Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Joy, Divides

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2014

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• If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Joy, Saddened, Ifs

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• No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near to Him so that He can draw near to us.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Mistake, Desire

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• It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Stress, Able

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