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Tears are not a mark of weakness

• 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 messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love. Washington Irving
• Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. José N. Harris
• Grief,  Sadness,  Loss,  Healing

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The best way to let go of sadness is to have a good cry

• A very powerful way of being able to express and release negative emotions is through tears. Just as laughter allows us to express our joy, crying is a natural and healthy expression of pain and sorrow. Amanda Harvey
• Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga. Kripalvanandji
• Every tear should live its purpose. Don’t ever wipe the reason away. Jessica Simpson
• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.  Antoine Rivarol
• I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief. Then I know I’m really crying. Crying just isn’t crying unless it’s messy. Terri Guillemets
• I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. R.R. Tolkien
• Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend. Terri Guillemets
• It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.  Ovid
• It is such a secret place, the land of tears. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. Albert Smith
• Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bare. Joshua Wisenbaker
• When you feel sadness inside, wipe it away by cries and tears! Toba Beta
• Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. Steve Maraboli

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Never be ashamed to cry

• When she cried, he would say, “There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who you are. They tell what is important. Don’t ever be ashamed of them.”  Terry Brooks
• Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. Charles Dickens
• We need never be ashamed of our tears. Charles Dickens
• Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive. Amy Neftzger
• Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures. David Richo

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That includes all you men out there

• I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry. Jean Rhys
• God didn’t give us tear ducts just to test our manliness.
• Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, “feminine” ones, that is, no anger please, but it’s okay to turn on the waterworks. Una Stannard
• Never be ashamed of honest tears. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Let your tears water your soul

• Tears are Summer showers to the soul. Alfred Austin
• Tears are the silent language of grief. Voltaire
• Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.  Eileen Mayhew
• What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. Jewish Proverb
• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. John Vance Cheney
• A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone’s face.
• Tears are the rain of life. Nothing grows without water.
• Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face but are those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.
• Crying relieves pressure on the soul. Toba Beta
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Laugh through your tears too

• Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. Hosea Ballou
• Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias
• Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. Seuss
• But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad. Anne Brontë
• Too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow. Amy Tan
• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Samuel Beckett
• Laughter

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Tears are a healing force

• Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water.  They heal us as they flow.  Rita Schiano
• The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. Isak Dinesen
• We often hear that laughter is the best medicine, and while this is undoubtedly true, tears can be equally therapeutic. Amanda Harvey
• He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. Lois Lowry
• That’s what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate. Laurie R. King
• What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? The touch of God is marked by tears…deep, soul- shaking tears, weeping…it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness.  David Wilkerson
• Tears are God’s way of cleansing the heart. Rebecca Barlow Jordan
• Every tear has a smile behind it. Iranian Proverb
• All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person. Hermann Hesse
• Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures. David Richo
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A good cry almost always lessens sorrow and unhappiness

• A good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit. Lemony Snicket
• It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. Ovid
• There you go…let it all slide out. Unhappiness can’t stick in a person’s soul when it’s slick with tears.  Shannon Hale
• Let your tears flow and where they go, let your sorrows follow. Dodinsky
• To weep is to make less the depth of grief. William Shakespeare
• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. Antoine Rivarol
• …smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter. Rumi
• But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more. Hans Christian Andersen
• When you feel sadness inside, wipe it away by cries and tears! Toba Beta
• To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day. Anne McCaffrey
• Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. Golda Meir
• Tears are a river that takes you somewhere. Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Sadness,  Unhappiness

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Tears help us to see more clearly

• Those who do not weep, do not see. Victor Hugo
• Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again. Alex Tan
• Clarity,  Perception

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• Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. Veronica Roth
• It is such a secret place, the land of tears. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Weeping is not the same thing as crying, It takes your whole body to weep, and when it`s over, you feel like you don`t have any bones left to hold you up. Sarah Ockler
• If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg
• Crying wasn’t like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it’s done. Alice Hoffman
• Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. José N. Harris

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• I cried so hard after I put my cat to sleep. I guess I shouldn’t have cried so hard, because with all my sobbing, I ended up waking it up. Jarod Kintz
• Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right – instantly. Sam Slick
• At my funeral I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.  Joan Rivers
• A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. Puzant Kevork Thomajan
• And your crybaby whiny opinion would be ?  Bumper sticker
• Beware of men who cry; it’s true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.  Nora Ephron
• Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.  Oscar Wilde
• I’m an adult. I don’t cry over spilt milk unless it has coffee in it.
• If he hurts you, cry a river and then drown him in it.
• It takes a big man to cry but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.  Jack Handey
• Never cry over spilled milk; it could’ve been whiskey.  James Garner
• Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.  Don Marquis
• Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. Tim Sanders
• Quadruplets: Four crying out loud.
• Real men don’t cry…tears for real men are only unnecessary liquids in the body.
• Show me a voice crying in the wilderness and I’ll show you a camper who forgot the booze.
• Sweat is fat crying.
• When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.  Oscar Wilde
• After 12 years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes he said “No hablo ingles.”   Ronnie Shakes
• Confucius say tears are the hydraulic force by which masculine will power is defeated by feminine water power.
• I can preserve a child’s smile. Make any woman feel beautiful.  Bring a grown man to tears 50 years from now.  And freeze time.  What’s your superpower?
• It was so good it would have brought tears to a glass eye.
• She cried and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.  Tommy Manville
• Tears: A good-bye product.
• Tears: Remorse code.
• The most efficient water power in the world – women’s tears.   Wilson Mizner

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