“You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.” SpaceKnownGoneTerribleSorrowTerrible ThingsTruly Happy Author:Lisa Kleypas
“ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge-from which new sorrows will be born for others-then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.” IfsWorldGivingBornSpaceGriefClearSadnessThis WorldBearsOughtSorrowHatredRevengeDuesHonestlyCeaseDecentCosmicShelterReserves Author:Etty Hillesum
“When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.” ThinkingMenMindWellsHeartLittlesGivenHeavenSpaceGriefSorrowPagesDietsGreat MenDeniedBlankSailBiographiesScarce Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Chemistry comes about through the transformation of earth, air, fire and water. All chemistry is just movement within those things, and so we experience the joys and the sorrows of hot and cold, and dry and moist, because of these chemical transformations. In a similar way, we create and experience a world of time, space, motion and energy, through our intuitions, our thoughts, our sensing and our feeling.” WorldWayFeelingsEarthJoyEnergyWaterSpaceFireAirMovementColdSorrowTransformationHotIntuitionDryChemistryChemicalsOur ThoughtsSensingHot And Cold Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.” SeemsSpaceWeekChildhoodStrangeSorrowSummerWingsBitterWings To Fly Book:Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century Source: Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” HeartSpiritualJoyHouseGrowsSpaceRoomsSorrowRootsGreenShakesYellowRottenPull UpsPain And SorrowSufi MysticGreen LeavesYellow Leaves Author:Rumi
“Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.” KnowsWellsHeartMaySoulJoySidesSpaceGriefWindVictorySorrowDrinkGloryRootsDefeatDeeperShakesOaksRaptureTrunks Author:Edwin Markham
“Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.” KnowsHeartSoulJoySpaceGriefSorrowRapture Author:Edwin Markham
“There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.” SelfTimeSpaceObjectsSorrowAbsolutesInfiniteFinitude Author:Adi Shankara
“That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.” WantFeelsDifferentFeelingsPainCoursesInterestSpaceClearSadnessSorrowNormalMajorsEmptySeasonsMental HealthResponseAbsenceZoneRight TimeVacuumsEmpty SpaceClinicalsProzacPain And SorrowProzac NationCourse Of LifeClinical Depression Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America