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• You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

  Nicholson Baker

  Life, Believe, Feelings

  Nicholson Baker (2010). “Mezzanine”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Watches, Empires, Glory

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Sorrow, Rewards, Found

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.85, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

  Jim Bishop

  Joy, Unexpected, Birth

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• When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin to impact people. Our Rapid Response Team exists so that people can find the care and comfort of Jesus Christ in the midst of tragedy.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Team, Emotional

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• O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

  Rumi

  Pain, Suffering, Seekers

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• Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development thanks to his hardships and trials.These are what prepare man for the Coming of Love.

  Peter Deunov

  Pain, Men, Suffering

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• Think of suffering as being washed.

  Hafez

  Pain, Thinking, Suffering

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• According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.

  Meher Baba

  Pain, Real, Self

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• The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

  Rumi

  Pain, Journey, Suffering

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• For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

  Rumi

  Pain, Betrayal, Suffering

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• The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Long, Soul, Depth

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• Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

  Timothy Keller

  Love Is, Greatest Love, Faces

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.38, Penguin

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• I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.

  Ann Patchett

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

  Brené Brown

  Disappointment, Hungry, Birthplace

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• At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

  Lloyd Alexander

  Ends, Knowledge Wisdom

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “The Foundling: And Other Tales of Prydain”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

  Denise Levertov

  Fall, Night, Holes

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• Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.

  Candy Lightner

  Grieving, Talking, Feelings

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• Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

  Alice Cary

  Wall, Garden, Rose

  alice cary (1855). “poems”, p.283

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• It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sorrow, Depth, Inevitable

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

  Candy Lightner

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• (Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.

  Laura Branigan

  Way, Deals, Get Over

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• Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated.

  Martha Whitmore Hickman

  Grieving, Reassuring, Process

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• I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

  Joyce Brothers

  Light Life, Tunnels, Get Better

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• I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself up to life in another way, to make it worth something and make it about the right things and not waste time.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Suffering, Way

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