Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
Interpretation
Difficult times create space for happiness and joy in our hearts.
This quote suggests that experiencing sorrow and hardship is an essential part of life that prepares us for future joy. By going through difficult emotions, we allow ourselves to feel deeper happiness and appreciate the good moments more fully.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience and personal growth.
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
This is where I started life. This is where I went to uni. This is where the people I know are. This is my country, and when I put on my Great Britain vest, I'm proud, very proud, that it's my country.
He who does not travel, who does not read, _x000D_ who does not listen to music, _x000D_ who does not find grace in himself, _x000D_ she who does not find grace in herself, _x000D_ dies slowly.
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that's it. I didn't write anything for, like, two, two and a half years after Katrina hit because it was so traumatic.
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all Iβve taken for granted.
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