Richard H. Stoddard Quotes

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

Life at best is bittersweet.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

No one is happy all his life long.

We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy - that's when happiness happens.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty

The entire world is a witness to the phenomenon that sorrows keep away from the kindhearted and compassionate.

Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

Joy, once lost, is pain

You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.