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“The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.”

Earth Grief Feet Tears Baptized Being Sober

Author:Anne Lamott

“I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!”

I Can Whole Used Joy Grief Break Feet Pool Liquor Pebbles Wade

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.”

Knows Littles Stills Sometimes Water Grief Feet Walking Wave Enormous Fierce Flood Quench

Book:Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.”

Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese

“And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.”

Men Way Father House Memories Grief Feet Rose Killing Achilles Sobbing Iliad Patroclus Hector Priam

Author:Homer

“You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.”

Way Pain Loss Walks Grief Path Feet Daughter Betrayal Trials Forests Straight Path

Book:Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

Source: Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

“Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.”

Littles Process Grief Healing Steps Feet Fronts Destination Heartbroken

Author:Phil McGraw

“"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."”

Source: Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series

“All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.”

Knows Years Home Earth Pain Grief Support Feet Tears Huge Shadow Sober Baptized Being Sober

Author:Anne Lamott