As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving.” — Nathalie Himmelrich Copy Share Image
“Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed But all the past still yet to come…” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“How can I grieve what is still in motion?" I ask her. "Shoes are still dropping all over the place. I´m not… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“My heart’s been empty since you left - but still I refuse to put up a vacancy sign. I’m just not ready… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like… — Thomas Golden, Jr Copy Share Image
Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Most women do not grieve so much for the death of their lovers for love's-sake, as to show they were worthy of… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Everyone was eating, talking softly, glancing at me, hugging me, eating. It was as if someone had turned the volume down. Everything… — Joan Abelove Copy Share Image
Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman,… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to… — Irwin Kula Copy Share Image
He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act,… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Of course, Mary Magdalene would have very little tolerance for the Christian platitudes and vapid optimism that seem to swirl around these… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“Samo si mene imao, osim onih grobova kod kuće, sad više nikog nemamo ni ti ni ja, ti si mene izgubio prije… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image