Patanjali Quotes

We were not made to eternally weep.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.

O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in.

Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.

Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.

I want to sit in my own sorrow, cry it out, talk to God, and say, 'Give me strength, wisdom.'

My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.

There is a light which cannot ever be extinguished. It is inside of you... It is you.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park.

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.