The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
The entire world is a witness to the phenomenon that sorrows keep away from the kindhearted and compassionate.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.