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Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?

Don't waste your sorrows

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.

Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

Every gulp of air that goes out in a cause other than the cause of Allah will turn to sorrow and regret on the Day of Judgement.

Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road.

Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.

For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.

for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.

Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.