Doorways Quote by Robert Bly Download Open image “Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.” — Robert Bly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doorways Feelings Grief Men
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart — John Adams Copy Share Image
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over. — Brent Sexton Copy Share Image
Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult? — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Yelena.” I halted in the doorway, looking back over my shoulder. “You once said I wasn’t ready to believe your reason for killing Reyad.… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire… — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b)… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you might discover… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater… — Peter Block Copy Share Image