“Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by”
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Grieving Quotes — page 59 of 132
“I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow.”
“I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.”
“Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.”
“Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.”
“Time is generally the best doctor.”
“Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.”
“When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.”
“My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.”
“Let the dead bury the dead.”
“It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”
“In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.”
“I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.”
“Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.”
“When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.”
“The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with who you really are. Your true nature. Your essence.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.”
“Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.”
“Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.”
“God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.”