#sadness

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#bad #character #choose #defines #gift

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#allowed #any #i #love #love is

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#believe #condition #course #darkness #deal

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#anger #bellies #challenge #darkness #down

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#avarice #beauty #bid #both #disinterested

Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach. ↗

— Heather Brewer

#love #sadness #love

I shot up,now as angry and frusterated as him.I had a feeling if i stayed, we'd both snap. In and undertone, I murmured,"this isnt over.i won't give up on you." " I've given up on you,"he said back,voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#love #sadness #truth #anger

...she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess. ↗

— Rachel Simon

#sadness-love #beauty

my life is just waiting for you to get started. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#love #sadness #life

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#coming home #days #face #home #i