~ You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair ~
~ The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you love them. ~
~ Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad ~
~ 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. ~
~ Sadness and gladness succeed each other ~
~ Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. ~
~ Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere! ~
~ The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over! ~
~ The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn�t have to relive it again! ~
~ Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
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~ Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile. ~
~ The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you love them.
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