#sorrows

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ↗

— Jean Paul

#distance #gray #heads #like #look

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#battalions #come #single #sorrows #spies

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. ↗

— A. C. Benson

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Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result ↗

— Anne Brontë

#happiness #love #marriage #reality-of-life #sorrows

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#everywhere #flash #joy #life #our

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#become #colors #day #every #every day