Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.
Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
A moment of self-giving lifecan conquer the sorrowsof many long years
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required
Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
