Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
Interpretation
Difficult times create space for happiness and joy in our hearts.
This quote suggests that experiencing sorrow and hardship is an essential part of life that prepares us for future joy. By going through difficult emotions, we allow ourselves to feel deeper happiness and appreciate the good moments more fully.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience and personal growth.
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.
The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.
My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
Days will pass, and youβll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.
Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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