#sorrow

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ↗

— Rumi

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Partying is such sweet sorrow. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#sorrow #such #sweet

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#compassion #debt #distressed #mind #misery

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights. ↗

— Francois de Malherbe

#delights #nights #our #sorrows #woven

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us. ↗

— Walter Pater

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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. ↗

— Sophocles

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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#destiny #great #sorrowful

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#forgets #heart #sorrow

I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, and even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. So I talk with him. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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