"Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!"
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"Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear."
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"The end of desire is the end of sorrow."
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"Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation."
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"In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings."
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"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."
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"It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow."
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"Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow."
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"Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it"
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"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."
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"To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow."
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"Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you."
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"Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe"
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"An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too."
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"From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear."
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"Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow."
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"The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way."
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"Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain."
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"Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future."
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"I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched."
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