we all experience pain and sorrow in life
Page 18 we all experience pain and sorrow in life. And although sadness is a normal, healthy emotion, dwelling on your sorrow and misery is self-destructive.
— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy) · 13 things mentally strong people don’t do written by Amy Moran.
In the book
And the root of suffering is usually a belief — the belief that you are powerless to solve the thing standing between you and happiness. Sadness itself is a normal, healthy emotion; it is the dwelling in it, the wallowing, that turns self-destructive. The third and healthiest way to handle a hard feeling is neither to dodge it nor to drown in it, but to confront it and use it as a catalyst for what you do next. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)