It's Just Life

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.       Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts the most.       Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.       However long the night, the dawn will break.         Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.         They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.         For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.       Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.       I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.       Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.       We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.       Sadness flies away on the wings of time.       A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.       It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.       The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.       We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.       You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.       Not every one has a happy ending….I guess that didn’t includes me until….until….Until I saw you with her…..       I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.       All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.       True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.       There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.       Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.       Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.       Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.