There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.

I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.

Because I want to know if I'm allowed to kiss your tears away. Because I want to be able to hold your hand. Because I like you.

Niebo jest wtedy, jeśli możemy z daleka patrzeć, jak męczą się inni, a nas to nic a nic nie obchodzi.

Niebo jest wtedy, jeśli możemy z daleka patrzeć, jak męczą się inni, a nas to nic a nic nie obchodzi.

Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!

One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.

There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.

she drew me. But not who I see in the mirror. Nia saw the Oscar i keep hidden. And she put him on paper. Nobody sees the real me.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.