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.
Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.
If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.
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