In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

Half my life is full of sorrow,

To-day is ours; what do we fear?

We should all visit the sick. When they are in sorrow and suffering, it is a real help and benefit to have a friend come. Happiness is a great healer to those who are ill....This has a greater effect than the remedy itself. You must always have this thought of love and affection when you visit the ailing and afflicted.

Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?

Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.

[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.