Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.
Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.
It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.
But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
The Savior knows the difficulties of the way and can guide us through whatever sorrows and disappointments may come.
My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.
There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.
There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
Lack of knowledge is the
source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted
or fully active.
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.
The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?
One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.
True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.
When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.
If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
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.
Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.
The bride and groom-May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.
Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows.
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.
Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.
When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.
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