Everyone experiences sadness at some time in their lives. Usually it is due to the loss of something or someone. But there are good things about being sad so here are some quotes to remind you.

Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!
– Dita Von Teese

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
– Carl W. Buechner

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.
– Taraji P. Henson

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
– Helen Keller

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’
– John Greenleaf Whittier

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
– Jim Rohn

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
– Carl Jung

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
– Jean de La Fontaine

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.
– Sidney Madwed

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
– Nicholas Sparks

Sadness is also a kind of defense.
– Ivo Andric

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
– José N. Harris

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
– Brian Andreas

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It’s a fact of life, like contradictions are.
– Robert Redford

I’m happy, I would say that I’m one of the happiest people I know but I’ve certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
– Richard Marx

I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
– C.S. Lewis

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Fear can creep up on us when we least expect it. Here are some quotes to support you in times of fear, and help you find courage when you need it most.

Fear can be good when you’re walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it’s not good when you have a goal and you’re fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

– Queen Latifah

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself–nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.

– Marie Curie

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

– Marilyn Monroe

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

– George S. Patton

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child’s vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

– Ernest Hemingway

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

– Donald Dowes

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.

– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

– George Washington Carver

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it’s contagious.

– Jimmy Stewart

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

– Joseph Campbell

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

– Rosa Parks

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

– Mark Twain

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.

– Sophie Tunnell

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

– Bertrand Russell

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We all have fears overtake us at some time in our lives. They may not be life threatening, but to us at the time they are still very real, although often unfounded.  Overcoming fear will enable you to take back control of your life in that moment, giving you the freedom you deserve. Here are a few of our favorite quotes to help you deal with your fear.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

– John F. Kennedy

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

– Nelson Mandela

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

– Mark Twain

A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new.

– Albert Einstein

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

– Confucius

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid.

– Bible Verse John 14:27

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

– Dorothy Thompson

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

– Mark Twain

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

– Steve Jobs

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I call it nirvana,
the complete destruction
of old age and dying.

– Buddha

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– From the Sufi tradition

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– RÂBI‘A

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– Helen Keller

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– Japanese proverb

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