"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom."

Grief, Compassion, Pain, Love

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"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom."

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"Grief does not change you. It reveals you."

John Green, American Author

Grief, Revelation, Change, Emotion

"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Grief, Sadness, Truth, Regret, Inspirational

"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."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Grief, Memory, Death, Presence

"All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Grief, Silence, Decay, Emotion

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Grief, Nothing, Past

"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Grief, Suicide, Family, Dignity, Loss

"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."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Grief, Loss, Life, Change

"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."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Grief, Loss, Love, Guilt

"I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break when you need them, and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters's death was Augustus Waters."

John Green, American Author

Grief, Death, Friendship, Loneliness

"Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Grief, Loss, Language, Suffering, Communication

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"I made an oath to myself:as long as I liveas long as my soul remains in this bodyI won't deviate from the right waybut later I looked to my left and then to my rightand I saw our beloved everywherehow could I make a wrong turn?"

Morality

"By the day,I praised you and never knew it, by night, I stayed with you and never knew it. I always thought I was me but no,I was you and never knew it."

Unity

"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

Potential

"Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."

Pain

"Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know."

Spiritual

"Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies."

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"Grief does not change you. It reveals you."

"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."

"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."

"All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming..."

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."

"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."

"Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?"

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"I made an oath to myself:as long as I liveas long as my soul remains in this bodyI won't deviate from the right waybut later I looked to my left and then to my rightand I saw our beloved everywherehow could I make a wrong turn?"

"Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion."

"Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation."

"A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home."

"Woman is the light of God."

"By the day,I praised you and never knew it, by night, I stayed with you and never knew it. I always thought I was me but no,I was you and never knew it."

"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

"Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."

"Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know."

"Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies."