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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.
Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Right human relations is the only true peace.
Right human relations is the only true peace.
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, read more
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.