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Sadness

«Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up»
Author: Katie Gill | About: Anger, Sadness, Tears | Keywords: sadness
«Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.»
Author: Laura Hall | About: Sadness
«Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.»
«Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.»
«Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.»
«Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison»
«Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.»
«Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.»
«Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours...never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren plac»
«An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Sadness | Keywords: cheerfulness, ounce, pound