Ah! If you only knew the peace there is in an accepted sorrow.
-Madame Guion
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Letting go of fear, attachment, grief and anger is the sannyasin’s renunciation. He savours only the taste of his oneness with the ultimate reality.
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
It is inevitable that a tragedy should arouse sorrowful feelings. Still, out of that sorrow itself comes a feeling of triumph – the victory of the human will over the most adverse circumstances. And thus out of sorrow and defeat come joy and victory.
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault