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“Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.”

Two Moments Pain Life Is Joy Pleasure Grief Sadness Intervals Pain And Pleasure Mosaics

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.”

Knows Feels Wells Past Pleasure Sadness Good Times Autumn April Twigs

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my interpretation, achieving liberation in yoga means learning how to be present with everything that arises, whether it is pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, failure or success. And to be present with whatever arises, I believe we must not only be aware of what is arising but we must also be able to see all things that arise as equal, with detachment.”

Source: Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee

“And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.”

Pleasure Sadness Awful

Author:Conor Oberst

“The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.”

Years Realizing Pleasure Morning Five Sadness Youth Wake Up Speed Passing Passings Five Years

Author:Derek Tangye

“I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)

“Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.”

Littles Stories Pleasure Brain Mystery Sadness Reader Skills Longing Sticks Corners Storytelling Haunting Evoke Moron

Author:Aimee Bender

“One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.”

Heart Said Pain Remember Night Pleasure Sadness Cold Sad Complaining Bitter Mourning Remember When Day And Night December Bleak Sad Heart

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.”

Source: De profundus

“Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.”

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Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.”

World May Children Made Hard Reason Seems Eye Pain Joy Stars Pleasure Behinds Sadness Birth Sorrow Sad Laughter Illusion Built Blind Mask Appetite Temperament Coarse Callous Birth Of A Child

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?”

Should Pain Pleasure Sadness Sad Gold Thread Grey

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“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.”

Ifs World Looks Has Beens Enough Home Joy Father Pleasure Inspiring Sadness Tomorrow Lucky Leaving Excitement Caves Carriages Miscarriage Leaving Home Father Leaving

Author:Audrey Hepburn