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“Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.”

Knows Trying Children Order Father Influence Sorrow Roots Shame Work Out Superiors Satan Shakes Disadvantages Having Hope Damnation Scruples

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.”

Years Past Joy Order Bears Sorrow Hopes And Fears

Author:Archilochus

“I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)”

“Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!”

Order Hours Plans Sorrow Bitter Employment Confused Purple Needles Irritation Indebtedness

Book:The College, the Market, and the Court: Or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law

Source: The College, the Market, and the Court: Or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law

“Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely due to the fact that happiness is his real nature. Hence, in order to realize that inherent and untainted happiness, which indeed he daily experiences when the mind is subdued in deep sleep, it is essential that he should know himself. For obtaining such knowledge the inquiry 'Who am I?' in quest of the Self is the best means.”

Knows Should Mind Mean Real Self Facts Order Realizing Sleep Sorrow Essentials Dues Quests Inherent Inquiry Greatest Love Obtaining Deep Sleep Daily Experience

Book:Words of Grace

Source: Words of Grace

“And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.”

Ifs Men Want Body Care Certain Order Courses Sorrow Madness Pressure Ships All Time Atmosphere Arrogance Folly Frustration Quantity Toil Calamity Bursting Ballast

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy. (pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")”

Self America Joy Order Conditions Sorrow Salvation Excellence Ancient Curse Serving Mortality Sweat Good Work Doom Genesis Self Serving Ancient Wisdom

Author:Wendell Berry

“One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.”

Thinking Writing Mind Looks Helping Faces Joy Order Prayer Mistake Clear Doubt Grace Praying Sorrow Breathe Capture Gloom

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”

Children Order Grace Sorrow Despair Depression Suicide Errors Depth Vices Stupidity Disillusionment Nausea

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”

“Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult times. He knows the deepest and most personal burdens we carry. He knows the most public and poignant pains we bear. He descended below al such grief in order that he might lift us above it. There is no anguish or sorrow or sadness in life that he has not suffered in our behalf and borne away upon his own valiant and compassionate shoulders.”

Knows Might Pain Order Difficult Christ Walks Grief Know How Path Sadness Bears Sorrow Burden Shoulders Mortals Lifts Als Compassionate Anguish Behalf Difficult Times Poignant Valiant Lds

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other.”

Trying Together Order House Gone Sorrow Equal Daughter Awful Fragile Being There Orbit Our Daughter

Author:Paul Harding

“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

“I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.”

Life Persons Might Suffering Order Realizing Imagination Poor Sorrow Weak Vivid Relieved My Sympathy Vivid Imagination

Book:The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life