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“It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.”

People Way Found Middle Honor Sorrow Dignity And Love Details Contentment Smallest Fulfilling Middle Ground Best Of Me

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.”

People Ifs World Feels Looks Would Be Night Sorrow Scene Contemplation Contemplating Wickedness Mansfield Park Sublimity

Book:Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P

Source: Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P

“People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.”

People Ifs Heart Soul Dies Water Fire Rocks Tears Sorrow Mountain Weight Your Soul Breathing Crush Keep Going

Book:Blood Noir

Source: Blood Noir

“The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

“I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.”

People Thinking Doe Soul Joy Hate Literature Sorrow Conversation Importance I Hate My Soul Relate Bores Seriousness Joys And Sorrows

Author:Franz Kafka

“As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.”

People Humans Heart Long Moments Lost Language Nations Hours Chance Mankind Grew Sorrow Holes Worried Permanent Obsessed Commodity Human Heart Counting Lost Time Missed Chances

Book:The Time Keeper

Source: The Time Keeper

“In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when people leave this world there's a corresponding moment of joy when a new baby comes into this world. That first wail is-well, it's magic, isn't it? Perhaps it's a hard thing to say, but joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together. I think we should all take a moment to meditate on that.”

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.”

People Ifs Mind Asks Proud Sorrow Pardon

Author:Emily Bronte

“Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.”

People Heart Rooms Sorrow Filled Misery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Mean Different Might Remember Lost Know How Sorrow Seeking Fulfillment Swim Different Roads Fulfillment And Happiness

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.”

People Ifs Thinking World Courses Sorrow Tragedy Refuse Sand Unprepared Unwise

Author:Karen Armstrong

“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”

People Want Heart Sorrow

Book:The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.”

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.”

“When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.”

“There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.”

People Thinking Suffering Sports Sorrow Performances Motivational Sports Wrestling Ignoble

Book:Mythologies

Source: Mythologies

“It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.”

People Knows Feels Firsts Has Beens Important Hurt Sorrow My Friends My Family Genuine Apology Staff Cabinets Been Hurt Monica

Author:William J. Clinton

“Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.”

People Men Heart Made Helping Bigs Found Rooms Trouble Sorrow Fellows Helping Others Trials Consolation Big Heart No Sympathy Great Hearts

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“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.]

“Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.”

People Joy Sadness Sorrow Dancing Worldly Sidelines

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?”

People Knows Seems Young Hours Wonder Honesty Youth Ought Periods Sorrow Golden Permanent One Time Accuracy Setback Golden Hour

Author:Vera Brittain

“There is no joy for someone who has no sorrow. There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience No bliss for someone with no misery and no rest for the one with no fatigue. When someone is a little tired, he has long rest. When he endures the difficulty of steadfastness for a time, that leads him to eternal life. All that the people of eternal bliss are in is steadfastness for a time.”

People Littles Long Wisdom Joy Pleasure Sorrow Eternal Difficulty Tired Misery Endure Bliss Islamic Fatigue Eternal Life Steadfastness No Patience

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.”

People Spirit Sorrow Solitude Desert Wounded Caves Relaxation Healed Herds Deer Sorrowful

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.”

People Mean Use Pain Prayer Too Much Modern Tears Taught Sorrow Comfort Crosses Originals Uplifting Heroic Soothing Strengthening Cushions

Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

“I think life is really hard sometimes. It's not easy to wake up every day and go through what you go through. But the beautiful moments that you share with people that you love, or even experience alone, are worth all of the pain and sorrow. Those moments should be cherished, and I think that's what music is all about-to remind people of the beautiful moments that are in everybody's life”

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Author:Charlie Haden

“From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow.”

People Soul Body Pain Death Joy Born Sorrow Burden Remove Ecstasy Identification Pain And Sorrow

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.”

People Half Millions Century Sorrow Injury Automobile Deprivation Half A Century

Author:Ralph Nader

“I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.”

People Thinking Shows Born Known Heard Sorrow Laughter Raised Show Business Applause Born And Raised

Author:Donald O'Connor

“All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.”

Source: Billy Graham in Quotes

“What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.”

“As for inflicting our sorrow on other people, one does not want to go around blathering and crying all the time. But perhaps it is our gift to others to trust them enough to share our feelings with them. It may help them deal with some of their own.”

People Want May Doe Enough Helping Feelings Deals Healing Share Cry Sorrow

Author:Martha Whitmore Hickman

“While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.”

Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering