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I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke. -- Luther Vandross
Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. -- Henri Nouwen
To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. -- Mark Helprin
To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on. -- Florence Griffith Joyner
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. -- Inga Muscio
I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. -- Inga Muscio
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life. -- Jerome K. Jerome
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness. -- A. Scott Berg
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup. -- Leonard Cohen
I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty. -- Luise Rainer
When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy. -- Denis Villeneuve
I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable. -- Janet Jackson
In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun. -- Johann Lamont
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it. -- Christo
I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness. -- Mark Helprin
I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part. -- Roy Haynes
There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally. -- Deepak Chopra
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. -- Audrey Hepburn
I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us. -- Natasha Tsakos
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. -- A. N. Wilson
I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples. -- Juan Pablo Di Pace
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me. -- Marlo Thomas
If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact. -- Karen Joy Fowler
Joy and sadness come by turns. -- Walker Percy
In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. -- Okakura Kakuzo
Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Sadness is pervasive, so focus on joy, focus on happiness. -- Debasish Mridha
God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness. -- Joan Baez
Experiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy. -- Marketa Irglova
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. -- Dante Alighieri
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. -- Pierre Corneille
I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. -- Jim Rohn
Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. -- Debasish Mridha
The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. -- John Green
A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have. -- Bob Brookmeyer
There are three types of tears; Tears of joy, Tears of sadness, and Tears of love; a mix of Both. -- AX
All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working. -- Camille Pissarro
Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities. -- Rajneesh
One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star -- Maud Hart Lovelace
Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that. -- Marcel Pagnol
We have a choice at every moment. We can engage in sadness, anger or fear or we can choose joy, love, and peace, -- Jude Bijou
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal. -- Stephen King
Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face. -- Francis of Assisi
There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy. -- Lisa Lucas
Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness. -- Annie Lennox
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation. -- Andre Gide
The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing. -- Stephen Covey
If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long. -- Pope Francis
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If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness. -- Marjorie Garber
Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. -- Paulo Coelho
a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens. -- Aidan Chambers

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