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“Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people.”

People Knows Giving Doe Sometimes Remember Suffering Lost Wealth Chance Grief Destiny Fate Divine Endure Complaining Mortals Good People

Author:Pythagoras

“Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow mild, love is with kinder looks beguiled, and Grief forgets her fondly cherish'd wound; oh, whither hast thou flown, indulgent god? God of kind shadows and of healing dews, whom dost thou touch with thy Lethaean rod? Around whose temples now thy opiate airs diffuse?”

Source: Poetical Works of Akenside

“I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.”

Knows Art Night Names Grief Darkness Divine Strange Flower Pure Mountain Rain Deception Flames Rays Magnificent Herbs

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.”

Thinking Children Hands Earth Parent Loss Grief Divine Color Flower Our Children Your Children Touched Shade Think Of You Blooming Withered Parent Child Loss Of A Parent

Author:Richard Hooker

“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.”

Ifs Years Heart Book Dream Lying Fall Next Understanding Pleasure Grief Silence Divine Tasks Favors Settling Portions Living Things Vow Settling Down Residence Quiver Vow Of Silence

Author:Pat Conroy

“My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.”

Ideas Grief Divine Grieving Shattered Grief Observed Stillbirth

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine.”

People Inspirational Humans Real Moments Motivational Spirit Challenges Grief Divine Losing Cancer Illness Fragile Threatened Testament Human Spirit Breast Cancer

Author:Sheryl Crow

“There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions.”

Self Grief Silence Divine Solutions Wounds Heal Bliss Diamond Wholeness Splendor

Author:Andrew Harvey

“Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.”

Needs Humans Heart Made Wisdom Eye Spiritual Voice Grief Clear Cutting Missing Divine My Heart Seasons Surrender Tonight Ingredients

Author:Hafez

“Who was this Man of sorrows, acquainted with grief? Who is the King of glory, this Lord of hosts? He is our Master. He is our Savior. He is the Son of God. He is the Author of our Salvation. He beckons, “Follow me.” He instructs, “Go, and do thou likewise.” He pleads, “Keep my commandments.” Let us follow Him. Let us emulate His example. Let us obey His word. By so doing, we give to Him the divine gift of gratitude.”

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Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.”

Life Inspirational Soul Running Joy Grief Divine Inspirational Life Fine Gratitude Clothings Woe Woven

Book:Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul

Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul