There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when read more

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for read more

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than read more

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, read more

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? read more

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
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A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.