„Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m“

— John Lennon

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„Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.“
— John Ruskin
„I feel in my heart all commotions and all contradictions, the joys and sorrows of life. But I struggle to subdue them to a rhythm superior to that of the mind, harsher than that of my heart — to the ascending rhythm of the Universe.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive — to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.“
— Rollo May
„Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.“
— Franz Kafka
„What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.“
— Henry Miller
„My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis