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#sorrow

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If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.


Dirk Benedict


#difficulty #entire #forever #free #lives

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.


Joseph Butler


#balance #being #compassion #connection #considering

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.


Miguel de Cervantes


#comes #felicity #happens #mixture #pure

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.


Patch Adams


#caterpillars #sad #sadness #sorrow #beauty

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.


George Eliot


#comes #despair #first #great #healed

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.


Simone Weil


#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.


Yevgeny Yevtushenko


#happens #happiness #happy #hardship #hell

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.


Shigeru Yoshida


#delegates #destruction #experience #feelings #great

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#about #anything #avoid #destiny #does

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.


Park Geun-hye


#fore #koreans #me #national #partition






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