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“The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.”

Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

“There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.”

Has Beens Beautiful Joy Belief Beauty Poverty Sorrow Creatures Fellows Medicine Sickness Richness Delighted Forsaken

Book:Leigh Hunt's London Journal

Source: Leigh Hunt's London Journal

“Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.”

People Ifs World Faces Evil Belief Realizing Poor Environment Like You Sorrow Assuming Meaningful Granted Abundance Good People Beneficial Examining Exuberance Meaningful Work Poor Health

Author:Seth

“How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!”

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.”

Use Dream Desire Belief Memories Environment Objects Sorrow Quiet Humble Passing Passings Your Dreams Sincerity Our Environment Our Memories Express Yourself

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance - all healthy, negative feelings without which people couldn't exist. But then they add, "I absolutely must succeed and must be loved by significant persons, and if I don't, it's terrible and I'm no good." Those are irrational beliefs. As long as people keep them, they'll be terrified of life and will put themselves down when they get rejected.”

“Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.”

“A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.”

Mind Heart Body Joy Lying Belief Ability Objects Sorrow Ocean Eternity Chaos Confusion Sunset Ache Mind And Body Moonlight Weeping Glamour Sorrowful Hope In God

Author:T. H. White

“I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.”

Believe Belief Wish Stupid Sorrow Sad Weeping Graveyard

Author:Charles Bukowski

“To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.”

“Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall—the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill.”

Reason Whole Belief Fate Sorrow Happenings Jokes Blind Defense Denial Shock Mechanism Drills Defense Mechanisms Blind Belief Happening For A Reason

Book:Baby Proof: A Novel

Source: Baby Proof: A Novel

“To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.”

Thinking Men May Mean Christian Belief Knowledge Sorrow Life Means

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.”

Belief Differences Trust Sorrow Coming Out

Author:Phillips Brooks

“Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.”

Believe Hands Joy Belief Wonder Duty Sorrow Angel Trials Believe In Me Overshadowing

Author:Giovanni Giocondo