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“God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."”

“When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown.”

Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

“Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.”

Knows Feels Mean Mother Silence Known Alive Terrible Sorrow Do You Know

Book:The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

“If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.”

Ifs Wells Might Today Lord Alive Sorrow Importance Indifference Surround Controversy Live For Today Supper Lord's Supper

Book:The Doctrines That Divide: A Fresh Look at the Historic Doctrines That Separate Christians

Source: The Doctrines That Divide: A Fresh Look at the Historic Doctrines That Separate Christians

“One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.”

People Humans Existence Alive Sorrow Misery Human Existence

Book:Lightning

Source: Lightning

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.”

Should Joy Spirit Literature Alive Impossible Sorrow Active Cease Dust Organized Restless Joys And Sorrows Restless Spirit

Book:Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Source: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

“Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.”

People Ifs Men Humans Existence Alive Sorrow Daughter Misery Envy Just Being Human Existence Happy Man

Author:Dean Koontz

“Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”

Character Helping Care Joy Music Alive Sorrow Sensibility Fountain Perplexity

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.”

Joy Hate Alive Cold Sorrow Selfish Indifferent Detached Unselfish Lifeless Being Selfish Unconcerned

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.”

Should Heart Moments Dream Together Life Is Joy Spirit Alive Impossible Ready Sorrow Spring Active Cease Dust Sparks Restless Snaps Organised Joys And Sorrows Restless Spirit

Book:Letters from Scandinavia

Source: Letters from Scandinavia

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.”

Years Humans Use Earth Joy Humanity Human Beings Alive Sadness Century Victory Sorrow Discovery Decades Obligation Revelations Celebration Dedication Earth Day Another Year

Author:Margaret Mead

“Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.”

“To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.”

Kind Alive Sorrow Reflection Originals All Kinds Splits

Book:Open City

Source: Open City