"Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."

-- Oscar Wilde

#Sympathy Quotes #Grief Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”
“A beautiful question shifts the way we think about something and often sets in motion a process than can result in change. Entrepreneurs-o r at least the successful ones-do a great job asking beautiful questions. They almost have no choice -their whole reason for being is to disrupt, innovate, solve a problem no one else is solving.”
“Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.”

Source : Sharon Shinn (2016). “Jenna Starborn”, p.172, Hachette UK
“There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.”
“Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.”
“We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return”
“If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.”
“Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedly long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.”

Source : Otis Williams (2002). “Temptations”, p.49, Cooper Square Press

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