“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 5 of 132
“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”
“It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.”
“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
“Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.”
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”
“A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.”
“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
“However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.”
“Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.”
“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”
“Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.”
“The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.”
“Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.”
“My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.”
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
“I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.”
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
“I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.”