The entire world is a witness to the phenomenon that sorrows keep away from the kindhearted and compassionate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
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.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
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