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“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.”

Giving Humans Christ Compassion Sorrow Comfort Sight Faith And Love

Book:Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

“at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.”

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”

Men Way Giving Heart Enough Death Certain Natural Dog Tears Brother Sorrow Stores Pet Loss Dog Loss Dog Grief Pet Grief Dogs Dying Dog Died

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.”

Giving Ideas Today Beautiful Names Known Strange Regret Sorrow Sad Graves Boredom Ashamed Melancholy Remorse Egoism

Book:BONOUR TRISTESSE

Source: BONOUR TRISTESSE

“Give Me Strength This is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.”

Giving Mind Heart Might Joy Prayer Poor Lord Bears My Heart Sorrow Roots Give Me Raises Strikes Surrender Thee Knees Trifles Joys And Sorrows Insolent Give Me Strength

Book:Gitanjali - Song Offerings

Source: Gitanjali - Song Offerings

“The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.”

People Giving Enough Joy Found Loss Simple Principles Teach Practice Sorrow Gains Humble Fulfillment Laying Down

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.”

Source: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature

“At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty”

Giving Moments Pain Joy Darkness Sorrow Giving Up Rose Remembered Life And Death That Moment Torment Thorns

Book:Awakening: Book Five

Source: Awakening: Book Five

“Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand.”

Giving Years Long Hard Light Lasts Joy Night Wall Birth Sorrow Climbs Candle Long Ago Giving Birth Staircases Foreseen

Book:The Senses of Consciousness: Swann's Way in Half

Source: The Senses of Consciousness: Swann's Way in Half

“Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.”

Giving Mother Sound Listening Sorrow Moon Singers Dawn Tape Fading

Author:Yoko Ono

“What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”

Giving Would Be Childhood Sorrow Performances Dancer Unbearable

Author:Arthur Golden

“A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess. In the real world, it's called courting. You let a lad kiss you and then you offer him more.’ ‘Let me tell you something, Olivier,’ she said with tears of sorrow in her eyes, ‘this is my real world.”

World Way Giving Should Said Real Eye Tears Sorrow Offers Kissing Let Me Rounds Prize Real World Princess Her Eyes Lad Tears Of Sorrow

Book:The Complete Lumatere Chronicles

Source: The Complete Lumatere Chronicles

“He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.”

Giving Light Tears Sorrow Grieving Candle Woe Jewels Velvet

Book:The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle

Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle

“God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Giving Humans Heart Persons Feelings Light Seems Remember Prayer Failing This World Failure Sorrow Guidance Human Heart God Knows

Book:The Measure of Our Hearts

Source: The Measure of Our Hearts

“I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.”

Giving Heart Stills Sometimes Stars Sleep Love You My Heart Sorrow Laughter My Friends Breaths Crush Chests Drowning Without You Shantaram Still Love You No Sleep I Still Love You

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls”

“But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne”

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.”

Source: The Works of Charles Kingsley

“I'll always be there I'd give anything and everything And I will always care Through weekness and strength Happiness and sorrow For better or for worse I will love you With every beat of my heart.”

Life Giving Heart Care Love You My Heart Sorrow Beats Anything And Everything

Author:Shania Twain

“It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.”

Giving Stills War Self Lying Fall Effort Divine Sweet Wind Sorrow Bed Profound Resistance Branches Autumn Warmth Comforting Odor Moaning Autumn Wind

Book:Pleasures and days: and other writings

Source: Pleasures and days: and other writings

“As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.”

Giving Wells Pleasure Source Sorrow Mountain Adversity Treasure Height Valleys Fountain

Book:Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward

Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward

“Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight”

Love Giving Joy Minutes Love You Sorrow Sight Give Me Romeo And Juliet Love

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.”

Giving May Age Differences Grief Share Youth Sorrow Remains Burden Old Age Grieving

Book:The Trimmed Lamp

Source: The Trimmed Lamp

“This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.”

Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Prefatory Memoir Signed: C. T.]

“Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.”

“In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.”

Ifs Needs Giving Long Enough Joy Night Trouble Sorrow Gratitude Lessons Singing Bird Cease Being Thankful All Night Foresight Gladness

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.”

“Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.”

Giving Fighting Grief Destiny Sorrow Commitment Thanks Grieving

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band

“No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.”

Men Giving Speak Grief Moral Virtue Cry Sorrow Office Give Me Endure Load Advertisements Sufficiency

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength I will always be joyful. Sadness ought to be banished from Catholic souls... the purpose for which we have been created shows us the path; even if strewn with many thorns, it is not a sad path. It is joyful even in the face of sorrow.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.”

Giving Games Player Sorrow Satisfaction Deny Chess Combination Crowns Chess Players

Book:Lasker's Manual of Chess

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess

“Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Some of it you would rather not think about, as you remember the pain and the sorrow. You also have time to worry about what will happen when you go into battle again.”

Source: Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

“I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who loved me with an everlasting love. Oh eyes, why do you refuse to weep when you see Jesus' body mangled and torn? Give vent to your sorrow, Christians, for you have good reason to do so.”

Source: The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language