"If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you."
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"When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders."
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"This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness."
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"She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled."
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"Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me."
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"I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength."
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"From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping."
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"If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't."
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"To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve."
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"Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow."
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"This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise."
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"...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary."
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"They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose."
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"Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth."
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"Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow."
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"Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night."
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"Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future."
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"If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief."
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"In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest"
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"You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?"
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