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“That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.”

Ifs Wells Problem Might Term Seeing One Thing Sorrow Safe Rain Dry Incessant Ifs And

Author:Elif Safak

“Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.”

Thinking Men Feels Should Hard Political Roles Seeing Sorrow South Resistance Dishes Korea Margins South Korea Foils Seasoning Trivial Things

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.”

Thinking Men Feels Should Seeing Sorrow Dishes Margins Seasoning Trivial Things

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.”

Heart Suffering Hate Literature Vision Seeing Sorrow Disease Hatred Burden Poison

Author:Aeschylus

“When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?”

Dream Body Age Lasts Joy Desire Seeing Crime Sorrow Solitude Mountain Sacred Forests Certainty Fearless Sickness Companion Retiring Rags

Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

“You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you.”

World Way Said Together Seeing Taught Like You Hero Sorrow Sweetness

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.”

Important Faces Seeing Sorrow Clothes Accents Inventor Disconnected Rudeness

Author:James A. Baldwin

“And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?”

Source: Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

“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