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“The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh things correctly. The soil moist with tears best feeds the seeds of truth.”

Mind Force Loss Sadness Tears Sorrow Gratitude Lessons Seeds Soil

Author:Theodore T. Munger

“Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.”

Heart Today Earth Sadness Gratitude Sad Remains Profound Seeds Immortality Joyful Being Joyful

Book:John Paul II: My Beloved Predecessor

Source: John Paul II: My Beloved Predecessor

“In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence”

Sadness Expression Gratitude Absence

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.”

Knows Sadness Duty Source Type Gratitude Brutality County Rupture Types Of Love

Book:Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.”

Ifs Feels Feelings Sadness Sorrow Gratitude Positive Feelings

Book:Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

“What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.”

Life Enough Life Is Sadness Gratitude Misery Miserable Good Enough Ingratitude Thank You Gratitude Great Gratitude Clovers Things To Be Thankful Blessed And Thankful

Book:Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays

Source: Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays

“Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.”

Way Sadness Gratitude Taste Perfection Grateful Fortunate Be Grateful

Author:Pierre Corneille

“It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.”

Mind Results Situation Sadness Conditions Gratitude Envy Miserable Compare Relief Frustration Something Better

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the school bus for the first day of kindergarten, a close colleague changing jobs, a move to a new city - we are more likely to appreciate [be grateful for] and savor the remaining time that we do have. Although bittersweet experiences also make us sad, it is this sadness that prompts us, instead of taking it for granted, to come to appreciate the positive aspects of our vacation, colleague, or hometown; it's 'now or never.'”

“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.”

Ifs Has Beens Loses Sadness Gratitude Compare Bitterness Balanced Could Have Been

Author:Carl Jung

“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.”

Source: The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment

“Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.”