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“Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.”

Ifs Long Enough Bigs Moving Left Stars Water Memories Grief Behinds Huge Long Time Shining Endure Calm Wave Moving Forward Boat Keep Moving Behind You Swamps

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.”

Thinking Men Stills Earth Dies Heaven Grief Watches Rich Wise Sea Moon Train Calm Rage Melancholy Heirs Mirth Majestic

Book:1914 & Other Poems

Source: 1914 & Other Poems

“The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.”

“We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.”

Fall Grief Rain Silent Calm Snow Bitter Loud

Book:On the Heights

Source: On the Heights

“There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.”

Should Littles Felt Sides Love Is Rooms Grief Impossible Duty Conscience Should Have Calm Pity Injury Resentment Both Sides Bruised

Book:Selected Stories

Source: Selected Stories

“Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.”

Should Suffering Grief Tears Humility Pride Deserve Calm Reminders Vexation Indignant

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.”

“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”

Grief Calm Grieving Bereavement Griefing

Author:Pierre Corneille

“The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

Ifs Want Needs Desire Grief Sadness Regret Broken Higher Hatred Shame Calm Rage No Fear Fury No Regrets Hold Me No Anger Live Without Fear

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.”

Thinking Hands Young Evil Grief Tears Rain Calm

Book:The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen

Source: The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen

“In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, anger, grief, despair, and that terrible, terrible loneliness. What was it about? I was hardly alone. I loved my husband and son. I had great friends, colleagues, students. In the quiet, in the extra hours, I was forced to ask the question, and to listen carefully to the answer: I was lonely for myself. [p. 123]”

Wells Persons Country Asks Waiting Hours Answers Grief Known Loneliness Students Son Grew Terrible Quiet Husband Despair Anxiety Lonely Calm Extras Fuel My Husband Colleagues Great Friend Calmer

Author:Dani Shapiro