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Where there is sorrow
there is holy
ground.
De Profundis
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How
should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are
at the beginning of all peoples,
the myths about dragons
that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all
the dragons
of our lives are princesses, who are only
waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Perhaps
everything terrible is in its deepest being something
helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be frightened, dear Mr.
Kappus, if a sadness rises up before you larger than
any
you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and
cloud-shadows, passes over your hands
and over all you do.
You must think that something is happening with you, that
life
has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand;
it will not let you fall. . . .
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Heaven knows we
need never be ashamed of our tears,
for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth,
overlying our hard
hearts.
Charles Dickens
Give sorrow words: the
grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids
it break.
William Shakespeare
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Bernie
Siegel
Just as you cannot
escape life's problems, you cannot avoid
painful feelings
and emotions. What can you do with sorrow and grief?
You
can accept them into your life the way water is accepted
into the ground
and taken up by the tree. Let these
emotions become a part of your life
without asking why.
Accept life and death, experience the rituals
of grief
and sorrow, and free yourself to live. Grief and sorrow
bring forth
the tears that are the water the soul needs
to survive. If you feel no sorrow
and no grief, you will
dry up and wither away as the tree does in a time of
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If we are willing, the
experience of grief
can deepen and widen
our ability to
participate in life.
John Claypool |
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The
best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy
is to go outside,
somewhere where they can be quite alone
with the heavens, nature, and God.
Because only then does
one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes
to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
As long as this exists,
and it certainly always will, I
know that then there will always be comfort
for every
sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.
Anne
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Margaret
Chase
Smith |
And this I do believe above all, especially
in times of greater discouragement,
that I must believe--that
I must believe in my fellow people--that I must believe
in
myself--that I must believe in God--if life is to have
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| Barbara Johnson
God can heal your heart. God can
rescue you from despair and give you
something to rejoice
about again. It won't happen overnight, but it will
happen.
All you have to do is be willing to give every
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The
weariest night, the longest day,
sooner or later must
perforce come to an end.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy |
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Suffering accepted and
vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity
which may well
prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.
Cardinal Mercier |
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George Eliot
It is not ignoble to feel that the
fuller life which a sad experience
has brought us is
worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher
feeling
within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing
with it a sense of added strength.
We can no more wish to
return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians
can wish to return to
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suffered much are like those who know many languages;
they have learned to understand and to be understood by
all.
Mme. Swetchine |
Grief knits two hearts
in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common
suffering is a far stronger link than common joy.
Alphonse de Lamartine |
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The Rainy
Day
The day is cold and dark and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold and dark and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the moldering past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining:
Thy fate is the common fate of all:
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
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Sadness is related to the
opening of your heart.
If you allow yourself to feel sad,
especially if you can cry,
you will find that your heart
opens wider
and you can feel more love and more joy.
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The most glorious moments in
your life are not the so-called
days of success, but rather those days
when out of dejection
and despair you feel rise in you a challenge of
life,
and then the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustave Flaubert |
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If it
weren't for the dark days,
we wouldn't know what it is to walk in the
light.
Earl
Campbell |
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So
much pleasure, and so little joy; so much
learning, and so little
wisdom. . .
the one divine thing left to us is sadness. . . .
Without
sadness, where were brotherliness? . . .
She is the Spartan
sauce which gives gusto
to the remainder-viands of life,
the broken
meats of love. . . . All things
take on beauty which pass through the
hueless flame of her aureole.
Francis
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