“If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 20 of 132
“If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.”
“My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.”
“Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.”
“Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.”
“Those who live, live off the dead.”
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
“O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!”
“We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.”
“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”
“Christ heals with more ease than any other. Christ makes the devil go out with a word (Mark 9:25). Nay, he can cure with a look: Christ's look melted Peter into repentance; it was a healing look. If Christ doth but cast a look upon the soul he can recover it. Therefore David prays to have a look from God, 'Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me' (Psalm 119:132).”
“When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn't a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.”
“Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets The moon sets But they are not gone.”
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
“Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.”
“One breath at a time. One day at a time. Wake up, and be shredded. Cry for a while. Then stop crying and go about your day. You're not okay, but you're alive, and you will be okay, someday.”
“Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.”
“And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.”
“Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.”
“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”