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“A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals.”

“Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to labor in the cause of salvation and if we go hence we expect to continue our work until the coming of the Son of Man. The only difference is, while we are here we are subject to pain and sorrow, while they on the other side are free from affliction of every kind.”

Ifs Men Kind Pain Causes Sides Differences Work Subjects Son Sorrow Labor Salvation Affliction Veils Pain And Sorrow

Author:Wilford Woodruff

“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

“Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.”

Ifs Thinking Men Life Writing Has Beens Soul Philosophy Facts Helping Body Reality Pain Lasts Faces Joy Evil Poor Tomorrow Sorrow Finals Wit Sooner Or Later Facts Of Life

Author:Ray Stannard Baker

“Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.”

Ifs May I Can Helping Morning Sun Sorrow Sun Rise

Author:Joan Baez

“Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early death for sorrow. Success is not for him to be pround of, failure is no shame. Had he all the world's power he would not hold it as his own. If he conquered everything he would not take it to himself. His glory is in knowing that all things come together in One and life and death are equal.”

Ifs World Life Long Eye Together Life Is Joy Wealth Knowing Failure Honor Sorrow Equal Glory Gains All Things Shame Possession His Eyes Life And Death Goods Long Life Early Death

Author:Zhuangzi

“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.”

“But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.”

Source: Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations

“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.”

“I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the worst?”

Ifs Knows Mean I Can Worst Sorrow Being True

Book:A Working Theory of Love: A Novel

Source: A Working Theory of Love: A Novel

“I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.”

Ifs Way Years I Can Ends Would Be Kids Remember Break Stupid Possibility Wind Sorrow Empty Murder Infinite Eight Chains Brutal Rhyme Infinite Possibilities

Author:Adam Duritz

“All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.”

Ifs Mind Heart Children Use Light Mother Desire Darkness Knowing Issues Seeing Judging Source Return Sorrow All Things Eternity Senses Clarity Judgement Manifestation Yield Traffic Finding Peace

Author:Laozi

“Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?”

Ifs Ends Suffering Perfect Existence Subjects Creation Sorrow All Things Buddhist What If Beginnings And Ends

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!”

Ifs Knows Want Has Beens Pain Sorrow Betrayal Grieving Touched

Author:Oriah Dreamer

“If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”

Ifs Grief Sadness Tears Sorrow Gold Raises Misery Heal Weeping

Author:Sophocles

“The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.”

Ifs Way Desire Meditation Masters Sorrow Shining Arise Dharma Passing Away Free Yourself

Author:Gautama Buddha

“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

“I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.”

Ifs Joy Desire Enjoy Wonder Sorrow Gratitude Appreciate Strive Burden Familiar Celebrate Bridges Anxious Gratefulness Chasms

Author:Philip Gulley

“If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.”

Ifs Desire Grows Sorrow

Author:Gautama Buddha

“There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.”

Ifs Feels Dies Turns Forget Grew Sorrow Survival Hundred Rivers Fishes Drag Cheeks Hook Supper

Author:Alissa York

“In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Mean Doe Real Feelings Desire Order Choices Given Goal Interest Loses Integrity Sorrow Perception Stronger Feel Good Bliss Bad Things Yearning Feel Better

Author:Adyashanti

“The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.”

Ifs Looks Heart Persons Eye Pain Sorrow Mirrors Deceit Sorrow Love

Book:The Language of Threads: A Novel

Source: The Language of Threads: A Novel

“The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing capacity to judge, to criticize, and to bring tremendous harm to ourselves. If we can harden our heart against ourselves and meet our most tender feelings with anger and condemnation, we simultaneously armor our heart against the possibility of gentleness, love and healing.”

Source: Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood

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