Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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.
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