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«People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.»
«Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows»
Author: Charles Reade | About: Men and Women | Keywords: note, sorrows
«One of the greatest sorrows of human exisence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.»
Author: Dean Koontz | Keywords: misery, sorrows
«Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.»
«Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.»
«May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep y»
«Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.»
«Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. (Psalms 32:10)»
Author: Bible | About: God, Religion | Keywords: compass, mercy, Psalms, sorrows, wicked
«Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.»
«I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop»

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