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“Grief alone can teach us what is man.”

Men Grief Teach Sadness

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.”

World Mind Heart Young Spirit Left Watches Teach Sadness Wide Left Alone Affectionate

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that it teaches us the way to attain what we long for.”

Ifs Way Littles Long Faces Speak Voice Teach Sadness Longing

Book:In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Source: In the Dark Places of Wisdom

“If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.”

Ifs World Seems Might Moving Understanding Silence Teach Our Lives Alive Sadness Huge Prove Threatening

Author:Pablo Neruda

“I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. I don't teach you renunciation, as it has been taught down the ages. I teach you: Rejoice, rejoice, and rejoice again! Rejoicing should be the essential core of my sannyasins.”

Should Has Beens Age Joy Teach Sadness Taught Essentials Laughter Sacred Core Rejoice Seriousness Renunciation Playfulness Prayerful Love And Laughter

Author:Rajneesh

“Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from falling into the depths of grief. You must stand up in the storm. You must face the wind and the cold and the darkness. When the storm blows hard you must stand firm, for it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.”

Giving Trying Hard Feelings Faces Fall Strong Loss Grief Teach Darkness Knowing Sadness Wind Cold Depth Blow Storm Firm Heartache Stand Firm Feeling Sad Storms Of Life

Author:Joseph M. Marshall III

“Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy.”

Teach Sadness Cry Shy

Author:Damien Rice