Philip James Bailey Quotes
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
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The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.
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Lack of knowledge is the
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
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Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
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He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles. Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of KRIYA, learn to escape into Spirit.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.
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Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
