“I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 55 of 132
“Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.”
“Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.”
“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”
“We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.”
“The use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the Self, love creates health.”
“Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.”
“Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.”
“Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.”
“If you consciously let your body take care of you, it will become your greatest ally and trusted partner.”
“I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.”
“Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.”
“Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.”
“Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”
“The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace each other, to engage each other, to not be afraid of each other. The music certainly has that very strong element. Go back to folk songs, gospel, jazz, and spirituals. See, all of that came out of tremendous pain and hurt, rejection, loss, alienation, and abandonment. What I'm doing is I'm expressing my pain and hope at the same time.”
“The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.”
“There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”
“Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.”
“I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before.”
“The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.”