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“I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.”

People Want Wish Sadness Figures Serious Sorrow Drawing Landscape Melancholy Sentimental

Book:Van Gogh's

Source: Van Gogh's

“Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and the heart of the envious man. Love wishes to give; envy would rather receive. Love creates; envy destroys. Love builds up; envy pulls down. Love helps those in need, comforts the afflicted, and strives to turn all that is evil into good; envy would turn the little happiness to be found in this world into evil, sorrow, and pain.”

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives.”

People Thinking Ends Young Wish Pleasure Sorrow Importance Assuming Notion Fulfilled

Author:Hermann Hesse

“It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.”

People Reality Joy Wish Pleasure Sorrow Envy Translate My Wish Greatest Pleasures Joys And Sorrows

Author:Kim Jong Il

“We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.”

Knows Way Giving Mean Self Seems Eye Earth Heaven Wish Wise Blood Worst Sorrow Highest Ears Islam Flesh Denial Vain Resignation Flesh And Blood God Is Great

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.”

Ifs Thinking Happens Wish Happened Sorrow

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.”

May Today Wish Sorrow Treats Morrow

Book:The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press

Source: The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press

“And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.”

Knows Littles Pain Happiness Girl Wish Fantasy Special Sorrow Protect Core Innocence Princess Happily Ever After Ever After Lace

Author:Peggy Orenstein

“I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.”

Care Wish Grows Tears Flower Sorrow Laughter Illusion And Love Growing Old Ecstatic Respite Love And Laughter Music And Love

Book:A Village Ophelia

Source: A Village Ophelia

“The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had written Forty Words for Sorrow. Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent. If you miss Forty Words for Sorrow, you'll miss one of best novels of 2001.”

Ifs Giving Book Wish Novel Written Talent Missing Sorrow Highest Praise Forty Blunt

Author:Tony Hillerman