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Veronica Roth Author

Grieving

"I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it’s been played on me twice."

Mother Grief Grieving

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Grieving

"Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself."

Running Mistake Grieving

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Terry Pratchett Author

Grieving

"Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this door will mean the end of the universe,' would automatically open the door in order to see what all the fuss is about. This made signs rather a waste of time, but at least it meant that when you handed what was left of the wizard to his grieving relatives you could say, as they grasped the jar, 'We told him not to.""

Mean Doors Grieving

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author

Grieving

"I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more."

Feels Given Grieving

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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian

Grieving

"As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods."

Powerful Saint Grieving

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman

Grieving

"He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen."

Causes Sorrow Grieving

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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author

Grieving

"Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work."

Giving Grief Grieving

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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author

Grieving

"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."

Thinking Grief Grieving

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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher

Grieving

"Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly."

Hate Too Much Grieving

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Robert Frost Poet

Grieving

"All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief."

Trying Grief Grieving

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician

Grieving

"No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite."

Heart Night Grieving

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher

Grieving

"Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring."

Perfect Spring Grieving

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Grieving

"I don't feel quite normal if I haven't written for a while. I doubt I will ever again write anything as popular as the "Harry" books, but I can live with that thought quite easily. By the time I stop writing about Harry, I will have lived with him for 13 years, and I know it's going to feel like a bereavement. So I'll probably take some time off to grieve, and then on with the next book!"

Writing Book Grieving

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist

Grieving

"What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy."

Thinking Rain Grieving

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Laozi Philosopher

Grieving

"When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious."

Army Taoism Grieving

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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker

Grieving

"When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show"

Strong Brave Grieving

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Ovid Poet

Grieving

"With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited."

Pain Punishment Grieving

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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher

Grieving

"Attachment is the source of all suffering."

Suffering Grieving Attachment

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Marie Lu Author

Grieving

"I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because he is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always."

Heart Love You Grieving

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Henry Adams Historian

Grieving

"What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success."

Heart Laughing Grieving

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