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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."”

“endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”

Ifs Doe Enough Joy Acceptance Sorrow Roots Fruit Endure Accepted Bitter Endurance Destroying Harsh Alchemy Gloomy Poisonous

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first in the justification. In yon garden she was first to work our wo; let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes first the apple of that bitter tree which brings us all our sorrow; let her be the first to see the Mighty Gardener, who has planted a tree which brings forth fruit unto everlasting life.”

Should Firsts Tree Sorrow Garden Fruit Bitter Apples Justification Easter Everlasting Gardener Saviour Risen Transgression Everlasting Life

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”

Doe Grows Bears Sorrow Weak Fruit Sympathy Limbs

Author:Victor Hugo

“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.”

Source: Love is a Stranger

“A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.”

Sorrow Expectations Fruit Disappointment Heavy Hopes And Expectations

Book:The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.”

Suffering Evil Justice Healing Sorrow Demand Fruit

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.”

Ifs Doe Stills Happiness Tree Bears Ought Fit Sorrow Consequence Fruit Mortals Useless Blight

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant fruit that grows and ripens is Life giving Love; it is the great healing force in the world. Love never fails to meet every demand of the human heart. The Divine principal of Love may be used to eliminate every sorrow, infirmity, in-harmony, ignorance and all mistakes of mankind. Love is God; eternal, limitless, changeless, infinite. It is the pulse of the world, the heartbeat of the Universe.”

“Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.”

May Done Law Wise Tears Ready Sorrow Flow Fruit Terror Multitudes Gathering Laws Of Nature Ripe Ripe Fruit

Author:Lucretia Mott

“If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.”

Ifs Desire Fall Grows Water Sleep Meditation Tree Flower Sorrow Findings Rain Filled Fruit Forests Grass Monkeys Finding Peace Vines Drop Of Water Lotuses Lotus Flower After The Rain

Author:Gautama Buddha