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"The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched."
"I like to go to the races at Hollywood Park, but I don't usually win with the horses, so afterward I go to Auntie Em's and drown my sorrows in a red velvet cupcake. It never fails me."
"You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY."
"To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God."
"The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite."
"Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you."
"Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present."
"To let sorrow go his own way one gives happiness a chance"
"Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them."
"The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear."
"Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love."
"There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it."
"Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me."
"Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time."
"I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow."
"When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta."
"Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
"Hope is incredible to the slave of grief."
"Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?"
"Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed."
