Cornelia Meigs Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
-
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.
-
Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
-
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.
-
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
-
Lack of knowledge is the
-
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
-
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.
-
Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
-
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
-
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.
-
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
-
Sorrow makes men sincere.
-
We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
-
To revive sorrow is cruel.
-
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
-
Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?
-
Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
-
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
-
Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
-
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
-
Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
-
Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.
-
Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.
