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“Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.”

Choices Grief Smart

Book:The Complete Plays of Sophocles

Source: The Complete Plays of Sophocles

“I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have to shatter our complacency and become "active souls,"and be prepared to engage in aware - that personal struggle between our grief and our sorrow. But I don't think we have any choice.”

Thinking Soul Choices Can Do Grief Struggle Citizens Sorrow Prepared Active Be Prepared Complacency Citizenry Personal Struggle

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices”

Ifs Way Needs Self Choices Answers Grief Poverty Ignorance Keys Shame Obvious Unhappy Pity Better Ways Self Pity Wallowing

Author:Og Mandino

“I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.”

People Way Sometimes Form Choices Grief Episodes Resilient Wrong Choices

Author:Atom Egoyan

“I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.”

People Needs Firsts Heart Made Two Pain Choices Can Do Grief Teach Cases My Heart Hot Forgiving Grieving Holding On Neglected Unfinished Forgive Yourself Unfinished Business

Author:Caroline Myss

“I treat anger, grief and strife as a sin, so I let all that go and I am no longer living a sinful life. Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.”

Today Choices Sin Perfect Grief Blessing Blessed Confession Being Blessed

Author:Kam Williams

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”

“Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.”

Said Matter Choices Natural Grief Overcoming

Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.”

Matter Choices Loss Grief Changed Sorrow Flow No Matter What Alternatives Swim Sink Or Swim

Book:Here Without You

Source: Here Without You

“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”

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Author:Bob Marley

“I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.”

“I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.”

People Thinking Feels Different Ends Choices Deals Grief Journey Weight Disappointment Loved Ones Death Of A Loved One Relationships Ending

Author:Tori Amos

“Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think we’d better look at what grief might offer us. It’s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.”

Thinking World Needs Looks Heart Doe Self Matter Seems Might Values Choices Loses Grief Break Doubt Offers Going Away Allies What Matters Self-doubt Break Your Heart

Author:Mark Doty

“In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?”

“You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.”

Way Needs Self Choices Grief Poverty Ignorance Shame Pity Better Ways Self Pity Way To Live Lynching Wallowing

Book:A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By