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“Can you visualize a world with no more death, no more pain, no more hunger, no more fear, no more sorrow, no more crying nor sickness, a world where everything is a joy and a pleasure? - A society where everybody works together in harmony, cooperation and love? That's Heaven!”

World Pain Together Joy Heaven Pleasure Cry Sorrow And Love Harmony Hunger Sickness Heavenly Working Together Cooperation No More Pain

Author:David Berg

“Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.”

Should Joy Sorrow Hunger Intense Novelists Abstinence Great Joy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“A verse of Scripture in the morning, may become a blessing for all the day. It may sing in the heart as a sweet song, from morning until evening. It may become a liturgy of prayer in which the soul shall voice its deepest needs and hungers-amid toils, struggles, and cares. It may be a guide through perplexing tangles, Gods voice whispering cheer, a comforter breathing peace in sorrow.”

Needs Heart May Soul Care Song Voice Prayer Morning Struggle Sweet Sorrow Blessing Hunger Guides Scripture Evening Breathing Cheer Verses Toil Whispering Liturgy Comforter

Author:J.R. Miller

“I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.”

Saws Grew Sorrow Hunger Desert Thirst Hunger And Thirst

Book:The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal

Source: The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal

“There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow”

Stills Sorrow Mountain Gold Hunger Silver Gold And Silver

Author:W. H. Auden

“Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!”

Long Whole Stories Joy Song Water Blood Sea Sorrow Ocean Singing Glory Tragedy Shame Ancient Hunger Tales Feds Twelve Shed Long Ago Unending Weaving

Book:Deep Wizardry

Source: Deep Wizardry

“Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe”

Joy Sorrow Hunger Ill Reports Sunshine Unnecessary Thirst Thoughts Of You Moonshine Edgar Allen

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you innocence, my child, my child. I pray you don't grow up too fast. Never know pain, my dear one, my dear one. Nor hunger nor fear nor sorrow. Never know war, my child, my child. Remember your hope for tomorrow.”

Source: The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows

“I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.”

Years Kind Desire Names Source Sorrow Hunger Explanation Simplest

Book:The Woman Upstairs

Source: The Woman Upstairs

“Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.”

Pain Causes Known Effects Sorrow Hunger Debt Foreseen

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.”

Knows Way Looks Heart Stills Joy Fire Crime Sweet Sorrow Hatred Greed Hunger Possession Separation Buddhist Sickness Contentment Attachment Joy Of Living

Author:Gautama Buddha