You say: “I did not think it would happen”. Do you think there is anything that will not happen, when you know that it is possible to happen, when you see that it has already happened to many?
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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 to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Feeling down, lost, confused, angry, jealous are all parts of the human condition. Don’t fight them. Understand them. Accept them. Love them and go beyond them.
It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
When you feel like you’ve had it up to here, and you’re mad enough to scream, but you’re sad enough to tear, that’s rock bottom.
Never be afraid of tears. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing truth. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing the beauty of life.
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
The colder the winter, the warmer the spring. The deeper the sorrow, the more our hearts sing.
How to be unhappy: stay inside all day, move as little as possible, spend more than you earn, take yourself (and life) too seriously, look for reasons why things won’t work, always consume, never contribute, resent the lucky and successful, never say hello first, be unreliable.
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.
No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.
If you didn’t remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn’t?
The perfected future never arrives. Life is full of seemingly endless trouble, and then life ends. Find peace in the imperfect present.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development.
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