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“Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.”

Humans Spirit Lost Waiting Animal Sadness Century Skills Plant Endure Wilderness Gaps Human Spirit Plants And Animals

Author:David Ehrenfeld

“I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.”

“Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.”

Knows Way Littles Moments Feelings Joy Grows Greater Sadness Silent Endure Shy Midst Something New Stillness Mute Perplexity

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies. It wouldn't have been much, and it wouldn't have been useful, but it would have been something that reflected the gravity and the sadness inside her. Instead, she had snapped at him for being a loser. It was as if she were trying to find a handhold on the boulder of her feelings, and had merely ended up with grit under her nails.”

Ifs Way Feels Trying Has Beens Feelings Sadness Tragedy Endure Loser Gravity Nails Inability Grit Boulders

Book:Juliet, Naked

Source: Juliet, Naked

“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”

Ifs May Sometimes Sadness Periods Sad Demand Depression Endure Illumination

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Goodbye, my friend, goodbye My love, you are in my heart. It was preordained we should part And be reunited by and by. Goodbye: no handshake to endure. Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow. There's nothing new in dying now Though living is no newer.”

“I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.”

Heart Soul Challenges Sadness My Heart Rewards Endure Obstacles Dues Welcome My Soul Acknowledge Grieving

Book:The Greatest Secret In The World

Source: The Greatest Secret In The World

“Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.”

Men Made Country Suffering Causes Known Sadness Sacred Endure Deeper Defense Southern Apologizing Inheritance Posterity Confederate

Author:Jefferson Davis

“There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.”

Doe Joy Suffering Sadness Bears Endure Delight Sweetness Relaxation Fatigue Having Patience

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”

People Existence Alive Sadness Shadow Standing Endure Gleam

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)