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“We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.”

“The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off - it just gives up, resets itself to zero.”

Giving Humans Levels Numbers Grief Emotional Giving Up Capable Capacity Response Zero Dozen Providing Adequate Exceed Reset Just Give Up Human Capacity Emotional Response

Book:Revelation Space

Source: Revelation Space

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

Source: Complete Works

“Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life?”

Men House Rooms Grief Cry Capable Lows Gains Harmony Rage Tiny Scales This Life Modest Lamps Harmonious Howl Endearing

Book:The waiting years

Source: The waiting years

“He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved more than they were capable of.”

Ideas Grief Capable Rewards No Idea Loyal

Author:Nami Mun

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”

People Want Should Wanted Grief Capable

Book:The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance

Source: The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance

“I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.”

Men Art Suffering Grief Emotion Type Sorrow Capable Tests Supreme Great Art

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,