Robert Herrick Quotes

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

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

Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.

Imagine no more tears, no more sorrow, no more pain... and one day we will forever be with Jesus.

Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.

To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them but that they carry with them love, peace and joy. That they become the sunshine of God's love to our people, the hope of eternal happiness and the burning flame of love wherever they go. That they become carriers of God's love. That they be able to give what they have received. For they have received not to keep, but to share.

therefore i live for today- certain of finding at sunrise guidance and strength for the way. power for each moment of weakness, hope for each moment of pain, comfort for every sorrow, sunshine and joy after rain!

As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest.

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

There's hope. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. You better thank God for that.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.

Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.

No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Venus smiles not in a house of tears.