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"Grief does not change you. It reveals you."
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Personal Development
"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."
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Personal Development
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
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"All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming..."
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"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."
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Personal Development
"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."
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Personal Development
"There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion."
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"We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find out interest in life returning to us."
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Personal Development
"A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember."
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Personal Development
"She has never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. That she had managed to keep it inside her this long was astounding to James. He thought of pushing open the half-closed door and kneeling before his wife, wrapping his arms around her shoulders and helping her upstairs. He raised his hand, stroking the wood of the door, planning to say something to calm her. But what wisdom could he offer Gus, when he could not even heed it himself? James walked upstairs again, got into bed, covered his head with a pillow. And hours later, when Gus crept beneath the sheets, he tried to pretend that he did not feel the weight of her grief, lying between them like a fitful child, so solid that he could not reach past it to touch her."
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"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."
Self-Awareness
"We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may."
Self-Improvement
"How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing."
Content
"Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind."
Mind
"The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator."
Soul
"Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up."
Education
"Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail."
Truth
"The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes."
Wisdom
"He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right."
Sex
"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
Wisdom
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