All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.
A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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