“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
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Golda Meir
3 quotes“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either”
Carl Sandburg
2 quotes“Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
Balzac
2 quotes“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.”
Neal Shusterman
2 quotes“but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart”
Toni Morrison
2 quotes“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”
C.S. Lewis
1 quote“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide w...”
Hermann Hesse
1 quote“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.”
Zig Ziglar
1 quote“It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.”
Chuck Norris
1 quote“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
Charles Dickens
1 quote“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our har...”
Jim Rohn
1 quote“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”
Colleen Hoover
1 quote“When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details...you just hold on...”