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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran

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

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. – Helen Keller

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran

Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. – Henry David Thoreau

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. – Joseph Campbell

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. – John Steinbeck

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise. – H. G. Wells

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. – Henry Ward Beecher

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. – Jackie Kennedy

We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. – William S. Burroughs

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. – Pierre Corneille

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life. – Jerome K. Jerome

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. – Thomas Huxley

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. – Saadi

Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else. – Morrie Schwartz

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont