Life wasn't all neat and tidy. Along with joy and happiness, there were bitter disappointments and heart-rending loose ends.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

village, and it was a long time before I heard the last of it. Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and knows noting of the truth.

He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And it's important to know that when one of us is down it becomes the obligation of his friends to give him a lift. I hope that each of us will cultivate a sensitivity toward the feelings of others and when encouragement is needed make an effort to extend it. Be a friend and you will have a friend. God be thanked for wonderful friends.