The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough.
Many of life's problems and sorrows are inevitable, but feeling sorry for yourself is a choice.
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.
I don't want my guy to buy me cars, villas or diamonds. I can do all that. I don't want any PDA, either. But my guy should be very sensitive to my pains and sorrows and should try to make me happy because I'd do all that for him. Sadly, most of the men that I have met in the past couple of years are too self-obsessed.
I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.
And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
