#trouble

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air; The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go; They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,— There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life’s gall. Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. Succeed and give, and it helps you live, But no man can help you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a large and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#laugh #mirth #pain #trouble #life

The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #ordinary #read #talent #trouble

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. ↗

— Uncle Remus

#living #there-ain-t-no-place-that-far #trouble #you-can-t-run-from-trouble #life

How upset is she?” “Let me put it this way,” his brother began, “All the shit you’ve shoveled from stalls in your life is nothing compared to how deep you’re in it now. ↗

— Lindsey Brookes

#trouble #life

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#troubles #dreams

The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#surrender #trouble

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#trouble

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#trouble

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#kick #month #most #pants #person

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#trouble