And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

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.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

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.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.

Many of life's problems and sorrows are inevitable, but feeling sorry for yourself is a choice.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

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!