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“Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!”

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Book:The Way of the Bodhisattva

Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva

“We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.”

Should Wisdom Joy Sorrow Spread

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.”

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Author:Elizabeth Smart

“The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.”

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Author:Zhuangzi

“Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"”

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Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”

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Author:Lord Byron

“My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.”

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Author:Rumi

“It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.”

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Author:Rene Descartes

“Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.”

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Book:Medea

Source: Medea

“Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power.”

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Author:Anandamayi Ma

“Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment”

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Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“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.”

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Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.”

Wisdom Sorrow Useless Hopeless

Book:A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774

Source: A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774