“If it's physical pain, you just deal with it the best way you can. But if it's more emotional, I don't know. I just try my best to feel it, take it in, and just allow myself to go through whatever may actually come from it. And then a certain amount of it, you can use to transform it through art, which is the healthy way of dealing with it, as well.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 51 of 132
“The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.”
“Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.”
“Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”
“A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation”
“When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.”
“I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.”
“The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won admirers in America as they studied with us or guided us with their counsel. I personally recall the wisdom and composure of Foreign Minister Lee, with whom I met in Washington just a few short months ago. To the families and countrymen of all those who were lost, America expresses its deep sorrow.”
“Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship, but I haven't lost her friendship. We still phone each other for a good chat.”
“The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.”
“Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.”
“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?”
“A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.”
“Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.”
“A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.”
“As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.”
“Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red."”
“One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.”
“It is necessary to heal the wounds of the past If you are going to build your country and to have unity. I am working with people who fought me very bitterly before the elections. It was my responsibility as the man who is leading the majority party, my responsibility to heal the wounds of the past and to work with people who were my opponents.”
“I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant, hard-won behavioral leap that, sadly, a staggering percent of the population of folks I know haven't quite mastered.”