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Yes, it's worth it. The pain of sorrow is terrible and hard to bear, but the joy of love makes it worthwhile. p123 — Kate Sherwood

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy. — Oprah Winfrey

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body") — Cornell Woolrich

Love is the greatest magician in the universe; it can turn pain into pleasure, agony into power, sorrow into joy, and gloom into laughter. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Your Sorrow Will Turn into Joy 16 a "A little while, and you will see me no longer; and b again a little while, and you will see me. — Anonymous

When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow. — Philippe Petit

And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow, so that when his dog died the world ended. — John Steinbeck

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. — David Hume

Good and evil, joy and sorrow. All things strive for balance. And that means good and bad things end. — Amber Argyle

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys. — B.C. Forbes

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy. — Oscar Wilde

I see beauty and pain. Joy and sorrow. I see the good and I see the bad . . . and I love it all. — A.L. Jackson

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows. — Roger Scruton

We are not sure of sorrow; and joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Righteousness is light;
wickedness is darkness.
Righteousness and joy are brothers;
evil and sorrow are cousins. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The Great and the Least, The Rich and the Poor, The Weak and the Strong, In Joy and Sorrow, In Tragedy and Triumph, You are ALL MY CHILDREN — Agnes Nixon

Tell stories that matter. Diction is about characters who don't exist, but their pain and sorrow and joy are very real. — Brenda Rothert

Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy. — Leo Tolstoy

Everything human must have in it both joy and sorrow; the only matter of interest is the manner in which the two things are balanced or divided. — G.K. Chesterton

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to make you happy — Ella Joy Olsen

There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose. — Cate Tiernan

Discomfort: the valley between the body and the soul. Comfort: the bridge between the body and the soul — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Will was dead, but Missouri Ann was going to have a baby. Birth and death were God's way, she told herself. Joy and sorrow were joined together. — Sandra Dallas

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. — Oscar Wilde

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage - and indeed perhaps more. — Pearl S. Buck

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We all know that joy and sorrow are entirely matters of fate and have nothing whatsoever to do with planning. — Larissa Lai

In joy and sorrow all are equal,
Thus be guardian of all, as of yourself. — Shantideva

My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain. — Kathryn V. White

Love subtracts sorrow,
divides trouble,
adds blessings,
and multiplies joy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Positive thoughts emanate when we are in a sate of joy and negative thoughts come when we are in a state of sorrow. — Girdhar Joshi

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console. — Pliny The Younger

Joy is much sweeter for having known sorrow; and triumph for having tasted defeat. — Jocelyn Murray

Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow. — Ray Bradbury

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working. — Camille Pissarro

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy. — Aberjhani

But that is the dual gift of love, isn't it? The joy of greeting and the sorrow of good-bye. — Patricia Briggs

Half my life is full of sorrow,
Half of joy, still fresh and new;
One of these lives is a fancy,
But the other one is true. — Adelaide Anne Procter

Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. — John Steinbeck

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy? ... — Daniel Defoe

Understanding of our fellow human beings ... becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow. — Albert Einstein

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long. — Thomas Malory

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter. — Louisa May Alcott

Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life. — JoAnn Ross

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, "Dear Sparrow," and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness. — Madeleine Thien

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you. — Mark Twain

Music is joy and sorrow, celebration and loss. healing and pain, bondage and freedom. Whatever you are... music is. — Angelique La Fon-Cox

Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow? — Soheir Khashoggi

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. — Naguib Mahfouz

Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy. Only when you're empty you're at standstill and balance. — Kahlil Gibran

I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am II am this body, a playOf five elements a dramaOf the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow. — Kabir

joy and sorrow, when they are both lived in God, signify fruitfulness for the apostolate. — Adrienne Von Speyr

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle. — Theodore Roosevelt

The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other. — Andre Dubus III

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed. — Kathleen Winsor

Both winners and losers shed tears; the former shed tears of joy, and the latter, tears of sorrow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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. — Kahlil Gibran

Go within and release yesterday's sorrow so you may embrace today's joy. — Liz Hester

My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement. — Amy B. Lyman

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow. — Joni Mitchell

Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years. — Archilochus

Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Thou hast
Drawn laughter from
A well of secret tears
And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking
And sweet. — Adelaide Crapsey

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows. — Jeremias Gotthelf

Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow. — Nicky Gumbel

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious. — Georges St-Pierre

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy. — Swami Vivekananda

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life. — Neil Diamond

No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy
save one, and I thank you for that, too. — Peter S. Beagle

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present. — George Eliot

And her joy was nearly like sorrow. — John Steinbeck

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. — Franz Schubert

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow. — Rumi

O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy. — Leslie Weatherhead

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable. — Charles Spurgeon

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. — Leo Tolstoy

Perhaps it's a hard thing to say, but joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. — Neil Gaiman

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys. — Owen Feltham

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. — Meister Eckhart

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives. — Elizabeth Kim

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. — Amelia Barr

For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow. — Anonymous

Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy. — George Sand

For who but I should understand love, with all its sorrow and joy? — Walt Whitman

The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time? — Sarada Devi

Ah, cruel fate, how swiftly joy and sorrow alternate! — Raimbaut De Vaqueyras

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment? — Jean Paul

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own. — Fulton J. Sheen

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form. — E. M. Forster

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive. — Israelmore Ayivor

Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes up for the rest. — Jetta Carleton

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know. — James Baldwin

The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Time is the great eraser, both of sorrow and of joy. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni