A Stroll in the Garden

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -Washington Irving

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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. -Hosea Ballou

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. -Bob Hope

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. -Clarissa Pinkola Estes

If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. -Lucy Larcom

See the world around you!