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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

It's the things I might have said that fester.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Smile, damn it !! Smile.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.