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84510ef It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were. life love fulfilling sorrows dignity honor Nicholas Sparks
3b5a12d Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn. sorrows Lama Surya Das
783cfd6 Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they were, would be, or could be hinged on the symmetry of their bone structure, the space between their eyes, their chin length, the tip projection of their nose, whether they had an ideal nasofrontal angle or not. Beauty is an enormous unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. pain world beauty dreams hope and-the-mountains-echoed plastic-surgeon khaled-hosseini unfair superficial unfairness-of-life sorrows cruel Khaled Hosseini
3a36d7e If there is an angel who records the sorrows of men as well as their sins, he knows how many and deep are the sorrows that spring from false ideas for which no man is culpable. silas-marner sorrows George Eliot
bca1288 However confused I become, I will always hold close the notion that I could find freedom. I could leave this prison if I liked, if I wanted to ... or if I didn't see any other way. And if I did, I would not give you the satisfaction of burying me under a priest. roger-zelazny-amber-chronicles werther sorrows John Zelazny
a152ebe This was the first of the sorrows of Turin. sorrows Tolkien J. R. R.
7f9fb9f We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures, how rife with misunderstandings are our relationships, how deep are our sorrows. Melodrama is individually always the order of the day. relationships melodrama significance sorrows self Alain de Botton
68eec65 Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result marriage happiness love sorrows reality-of-life Anne Brontë
2e6cc27 Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows. loneliness eccentrics the-green-knight iris-murdoch sins sorrows society Iris Murdoch