Zitat des Tages über Leiden / Sorrows:
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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.
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Though our trials are diverse, there is one thing the Lord expects of us no matter our difficulties and sorrows: He expects us to press on.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.