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“The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh things correctly. The soil moist with tears best feeds the seeds of truth.”

Mind Force Loss Sadness Tears Sorrow Gratitude Lessons Seeds Soil

Author:Theodore T. Munger

“Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)

“Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that Ive had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.”

Thinking Way Artist Stuff Loss Levels Gone Taught Perspective Gratitude Losing Bother Salt Grain Great Art Great Artist Grain Of Salt

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.”

Trying Heart Whole Loses Loss Achieve Gratitude Remains Embrace

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.”

Thinking Should Has Beens Given Loses Loss Gone Path Gratitude Should Have Grateful Where You Are Right Path Straight Path

Author:Suze Orman

“America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.”

Men Wells Enough America Fighting Nations Causes Loss Sacrifice Return Gratitude Men And Women Ultimate Paid Blessed Soldier Debt Battlefields Great Nations Military Service Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Allen Boyd

“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”

“The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in His own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.”

Knows Way May Today Desire Loss Lord Taken Tears Gratitude Faithful Rejoice

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.”

“All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.”

Knows Feels Should Mean Loses My Own Loss Grief Knowing Gratitude Grateful Sorry Grieving Not Knowing I'm Sorry

Book:A Set of Variations: Twenty-seven Stories

Source: A Set of Variations: Twenty-seven Stories

“The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.”

Long Sometimes Loss Answers Grief Existence Mystery Love You Gratitude Long Time Weight Deeper Driven Knees Sanctity Wakes You

Author:Dean Koontz

“Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.”

Way Natural Loss Clear Cutting Football Victory Gratitude Coaching

Author:Tommy Prothro

“Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.”

Moments Imagination Loss Gratitude

Author:Blaise Pascal