"Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work."
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"Grief comes and goes, it ebbs and flows. I think one of the lessons of this for me is that there's no one way to grieve. Everyone does it in their own way, in their own time, and we all process life and its challenges and its ups and downs as they come."
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"If I didn't write in my journal every couple of days, I felt like I was going to burst. Later I learned the research about how important journaling can be to recovering from trauma and grief. That was definitely true for me."
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"After my husband, Dave, died, I called my friend Adam, a psychologist who studies how people find meaning in our lives, and I asked him what, if anything, I could do to help myself and my kids get through this. We started talking about resilience, then reading about it, then talking to other people who had gotten through grief and other huge challenges. In time, those conversations and that research helped me heal."
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"There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful."
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"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."
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"Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now."
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"Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king."
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"One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief."
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"Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief."
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"Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice."
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"All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief."
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"I hope we are able to shift debate over to the Middle East and change this debate to how we help the people in their home countries rather than believing we can be their relief valve for the poverty and the grief that`s in the world by bringing people here."
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"Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door."
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"With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant."
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"As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable."
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"O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God."
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"I treat anger, grief and strife as a sin, so I let all that go and I am no longer living a sinful life. Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life."
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"Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards."
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"It was his own grief turned magically to song."
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