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sadness humility thinking
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue. C. S. Lewis
sadness mean thinking
What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual. Aaron Swartz
sad education weed
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. Charlotte Bronte
sadness being-funny
What a sad business is being funny! Charlie Chaplin
sad break-up breakup
We need never be ashamed of our tears. Charles Dickens
sadness faces brightness
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
sad death suicide
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. Charles Caleb Colton
sad broken-heart lonely
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
sad tomb
There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks. Suzy Menkes
laughter medicine laughing
I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. Carol Vorderman
laughter serious reason
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused. Agnes Repplier
laughter spring heart
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
laughter memories cheer
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
laughter spring heartless
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
laughter dust laughing
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
laughter heart silence
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.
laughter believe hatred
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror
laughter eye wrinkles
Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.
being-alone two eulogy
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. Elbert Hubbard
being-alone love-is left
If love is universal, no one can be left out. Deepak Chopra
being-alone men alone-man
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. Arthur Schopenhauer
being-alone talking people
I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me. Celine Dion
being-alone going-away want
Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone. Arnold Rothstein
being-alone feelings longing
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. Albert Einstein
being-alone holiness alone-time
Spend some time alone every day. Dalai Lama
being-alone acceptance ready
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God. Desmond Tutu
being-alone heart men
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man. Don Williams