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That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow. — Saadi

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

Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience. — Carolyn Shields

Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow. — Alexandre Dumas

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

But the memory of past sorrow
is it not present joy? — Edgar Allan Poe

Where joy grows deep, sorrow must deepen; the greater one's pleasures, the greater the pain. — Soseki Natsume

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

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. — Kahlil Gibran

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

Joy, not sorrow.
Laughter, not tears.
Life, not death.
Love, not blame. — Lisa Schroeder

In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully. — Danielle Cormack

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

The depth of my sorrow is the height of my joy. — Genevieve Gerard

To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy. — Katherine Mansfield

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

In the greatest sorrow, we shall find the grace of joy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you. — Kahlil Gibran

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

One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy. — Megan Hart

It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow. — Dennis E. Adonis

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

Him I delight in accepts joy as joy;
He is richened by sorrow as a river by its bends — Stephen Spender

Hearts sounded different from person to person, betraying age or youth, joy, sorrow, fear, or courage, but that was all. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

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

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad

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

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. — Eudora Welty

In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in every parting there was some joy of the meeting as well. — Cassandra Clare

There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will. — Richard Hovey

Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not. — Mason Cooley

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

I already know sorrow. Today I choose joy. — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

Crossing the line isn't about forgetting the people we love. It's about not letting our past sorrow steal our future joy. — Deanna Roy

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

We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy. — J.R. Miller

Life essentially seeks out balance.I have found that it is in the habit of trading one sorrow for one joy until one cancels out the other. — Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

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

Love! In this world of sorrow, you're my source of joy. — Debasish Mridha

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

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven. — Mark Twain

There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness. — Dante Alighieri

Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind. — Mason Cooley

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

Don't let the present pass in sorrow ,hoping that the future will be full of joy.- RVM — R.v.m.

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

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

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

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

Sorrow for a wrong was better than nothing ... but no amount of after-the-fact sorrow could ever atone for joy taken in destruction ... — Stephen King

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

Wisdom in sorrow is better than joy in folly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy. — Helen Hunt Jackson

Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul. — Margaret Of Valois

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

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

Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free. — Richard Henry Stoddard

Joy in pain is better than sorrow in pleasure. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might,
Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight. — George MacDonald

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

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth. — Charles Henry Mackintosh

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

In your winter you deny your spring, — Kahlil Gibran

Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow. — Cecil Thounaojam

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

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

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt. — Alice Hegan Rice

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

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

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

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.
But stories all ... — William Joyce

In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A lifetime of joy, sorrow, laughter, frowns, smiles, tears ... life! — Faraaz Kazi

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

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

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger
not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

Stay away from any minute of joy that can bring you a lifetime of sorrow. — Dennis E. Adonis

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

Life is fleeting;
your joys make it seem even shorter,
but your sorrows make it seem too long. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. — Rumi

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

Is it not strange that while we have an opportunity to choose Positive over Negative,Joy over Sorrow,we often choose the latter?-RVM — R.v.m.