“Another misconception is that if we truly loved someone, we will never finish with our grief, as if continued sorrow is a testimonial to our love. But true love does not need grief to support its truth. Love can last in a healthy and meaningful way, once our grief is dispelled. We can honor our dead more by the quality of our continued living than by our constantly remembering the past.” IfsWayNeedsDoeLastsPastRememberGriefQualitySupportHonorSorrowHealthyMeaningfulGrievingOur LoveMisconceptionTruth LoveRemembering The PastTestimonial Author:Judy Tatelbaum
“Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.” WorldBelieveDreamRealitySpiritEvilForceQualityFantasyFateMankindSorrowErrorsWanderOppositionFree WillToysWorld HistoryDeliberateBoundlessUnthinkableUnspeakableAntithesis Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save you much time. You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy.” IfsPersonsTwoHelpingAsksMemoriesQualityAdviceSorrowOffersConversationOvercomingLibraryTwo ThingsIsolatedConsumedLibrarianRichnessNeuroticShynessDisregardedErudition Author:Umberto Eco
“It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.” WayGivingChildrenTwoHeavenQualityShareSorrowDemandCapableSimplicityChecksGrievingEnjoymentContemplatingEnteringInfantInitiation Book:The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens Source: The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens
“War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.” MenWarEyeSufferingEvilQualitySituationVirtueCrimeDangerSorrowIntellectualGlorySightTrainDwellingAdmirableExertion Author:William C. Bryant
“The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.” FirstsMadeI CanBookAgeRememberFoundQualityMorningColdSorrowComfortAdultsEmptyOptimismSouthMemoirAfrican AmericanSatGradesWarmthYellowClassroomSunlightBedroomSaturdayFifthJanuaryBookshelvesFifth GradeSaturday MorningGrateRectangles Author:Richard Rodriguez
“My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'” PeopleShouldSaidBookQualitySorrowAmbitionEmbraceWeatherFormerEcstasyRemorseGood BookMy Ambition Author:Pete Hamill
“People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.” PeopleHeartSelfQualityFamilyHuman NatureSorrowAnxietyConsciousEvidenceIntimacyProportionFamily LifeSelf ConsciousPolitenessDazzlingTrue Intimacy Book:Armance Source: Armance
“There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to reveal itself. The poems of first love are a case in point, and certainly such love is a sufficient stimulus.” PeopleIfsFirstsPainLove IsQualityCasesGeniusNeededSorrowSufficientFirst LoveStimulus Book:Sex & Character Source: Sex & Character
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.” HeartChildrenSoulCharacterGodChristianPainSpiritualMotherSufferingFaithFatherHeavenEducationQualityLordHumilityDevelopmentSorrowWasteGainsExperiencePatienceAdversityEndureWorthyChristian InspirationalTrialsMinistersAcquireEnduranceSpiritual WisdomToilFortitudeOur FatherOvercoming AdversityChild Of GodCharitableTribulationKeep The FaithNo PainPain And SorrowPain Is Temporary Author:Orson F. Whitney