“Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 17 of 132
“The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.”
“Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.”
“It is by suffering that human beings become angels.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.”
“Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.”
“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”
“The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.”
“My secret is simple -- I pray.”
“The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is natural. But by struggling to overcome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life and develop the compassion to share the sufferings of others as our own.”
“Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.”
“Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one a long time ago. Spirit, which is who we really are, or Source, is eternal. So what death must be is a changing of the perspective of that Eternal Spirit. If I am standing in my physical body and am consciously connected to that Eternal Spirit, then I'm Eternal in nature and I need not ever again fear any endedness, because, from that perspective I understand that there is not any of that.”
“Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.”
“Death rock me asleep.”
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
“The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.”
“There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.”
“The final reward of the dead - to die no more”
“Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway retuning from an NAACP meeting in downtown Jackson. And then you go back there years later, and the blood is still on the driveway. They cannot wash it away.”