“In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 11 of 132
“This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?”
“Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to be true. I think that I've come to terms with the fact that that's just going to happen for the whole duration of my life. I feel really good about being able to look myself in the face and say, "Oh, who are you now?" And that might change.”
“There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.”
“The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.”
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.”
“The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.”
“Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.”
“Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.”
“Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.”
“I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.”
“Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be ok - that we were all going to be ok - the message would come to me in the form of a white feather. Then something happened to me about ten years ago when I was on tour in Australia. I was presented with a white feather by an Aboriginal tribal elder, which definitely took my breath away. One thing for sure is that the white feather has always represented peace to me.”
“Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.”
“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”
“All diseases begin in the gut.”
“Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.”
“If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.”
“I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.”
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”