"It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break."
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"A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow."
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"All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself."
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"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced."
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"Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight."
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"Gentle time will heal our sorrows."
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"I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it."
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"There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow."
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"The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world."
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"Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray."
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"A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment."
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"The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow."
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"The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye)."
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"Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in need, revealing the path to many."
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""All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity."
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"Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow."
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"Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it."
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"Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow."
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"The busy have no time for tears."
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"Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?"
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