Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
“All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.”
Source: Phantom
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Susan Kay 19
British writer 1952Related quotes
“Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.”
Part Two: The Lost Music, "The Touchstone" p. 507
The Little Country (1991)
Context: They stood and listened, arms around each other for comfort, as the sound washed over them. It reverberated in the marrow of their bones, sung high and sweet, heartbreakingly mournful, quick as a jig, slow as the saddest air. Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.

“Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter perish in its fall.”
The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, No. xxxvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
#happiness

Source: The Martyrdom of Man (1872), Chapter IV, "Intellect", p. 385.