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“I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.”

World Has Beens Suffering Left Peace Principles Produce Sorrow Stronger Deeper Rage Ideology Developing Nonviolence Aversion

Author:Joan Baez

“Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.”

Light Produce Sorrow Insight Trauma Tranquility Rubbish Stunning

Book:Telegraph Avenue then

Source: Telegraph Avenue then

“Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.”

Sin Produce Sorrow Sufficient Repentance Amendments

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Humans Christian Desire Religious Virtue Impossible Doors Produce Humility Pride Sorrow Draws Orthodox Righteousness Affliction

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Sooner or later all mankind will realize that the greatest cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrow and crimes of humanity rests solely in acts of love. Love is the greatest gift from God. It is the divine spark that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, love gives us the power to work miracles with your own life and those we touch.”

Giving Care Humanity Realizing Love Is Mankind Crime Produce Divine Sorrow Miracle Cures Sparks Sooner Or Later Greatest Gifts Gift From God Acts Of Love

Book:The Christ Commission: Will One Man Discover Proof That Every Christian in the World Is Wrong?

Source: The Christ Commission: Will One Man Discover Proof That Every Christian in the World Is Wrong?

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”

Ifs Feels Has Beens Seems Past My Own Sin Effects Produce Tears Sorrow Tragedy Committed Ignorant Mourning Weeping

Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.”

Source: The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical and critical notices of eminent novelists

“When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.”

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.”

Stories Christian Joy Lost Emotion Produce Tears Sorrow Essentials Selfishness Fairy Resurrection Lost Love Altruism Joys And Sorrows Fairy Stories

Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.”

Knows Persons Pleasure Know How Greater Produce Sorrow Philosopher Refuse

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.”

Love Care Romance Lying Humanity Peace Crime Produce Divine Sorrow Cures Vitality One Word Words Love Friend Valentine

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.”

Knows Art Ends Practice Produce Exercise Sorrow Delight Seeds Repentance Laziness Shut Up Sloth

Book:The works

Source: The works

“Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.”

Source: Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World