Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on the whole those who have most of a destiny) find that all is not a bed of roses. Among other things there will be waves of terrible sadness, which last sometimes for days; irritation, insensibility, etc., etc., which taken together form a melancholy. Now, painful as it is, this is sent to us for an enlightenment. It always passes off, and we learn about life from it, and we ought to learn a great many good things if we react on it right. (For instance, you learn how good a thing your home is, and your country, and your brothers, and you may learn to be more considerate of other people, who, you now learn, may have their inner weaknesses and sufferings, too.) Many persons take a kind of sickly delight in hugging it; and some sentimental ones may even be proud of it, as showing a fine sorrowful kind of sensibility. Such persons make a regular habit of the luxury of woe. That is the worst possible reaction on it. It is usually a sort of disease, when we get it strong, arising from the organism having generated some poison in the blood; and we mustn't submit to it an hour longer than we can help, but jump at every chance to attend to anything cheerful or comic or take part in anything active that will divert us from our mean, pining inward state of feeling. When it passes off, as I said, we know more than we did before. And we must try to make it last as short as time as possible. The worst of it often is that, while we are in it, we don't want to get out of it. We hate it, and yet we prefer staying in it—that is a part of the disease. If we find ourselves like that, we must make something ourselves to some hard work, make ourselves sweat, etc.; and that is the good way of reacting that makes of us a valuable character. The disease makes you think of yourself all the time; and the way out of it is to keep as busy as we can thinking of things and of other people—no matter what's the matter with our self.
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'Cause life is not. MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited,... LEMONY SNICKET I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is darkness inside all of us, though mine is more dangerous than most. Still, we all have it�... JENNA MACLAINE Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Shall I tell you the difference between our Holy Father and ourselves? We see things from a single v... FREDERICK ROLFE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple. RICK RIORDAN Even if we choose to sever the ties to all we ever knew as home, to redefine the spaces we live in, ... ROBERT GOOLRICK We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. ... STANISłAW LEM And do not imagine that what we are fighting for is simply the question of freedom or slavery: there... THUCYDIDES I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
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