“Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 14 of 132
“As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.”
“It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.”
“Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.”
“Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.”
“Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.”
“I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.”
“Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.”
“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”
“Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.”
“Forgiving someone does not mean you condone their behavior. The act of forgiveness takes place in your own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person. The reality of true forgiveness lies in setting ourselves free from holding on to the pain. It is simply an act of releasing yourself from the negative energy.”
“It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.”
“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.”
“Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.”
“When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.”
“To be able to forget means sanity.”
“You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.”
“It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.”
“The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.”
“There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.”