“Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 2 of 132
“You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.”
“The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.”
“Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.”
“Walking is a man's best medicine.”
“All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.”
“Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”
“Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.”
“Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.”
“Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.”
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”