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“Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.”

Grief Tears Flow

Author:Ovid

“That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.”

Heart Grief Flow Depth Streams Inward Fountain

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.”

“When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.”

Needs Heart Children Grief Tears Angel Flow Punishment Repentance Correcting Chastisement

Author:Horace Mann

“I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.”

Ifs Feels Littles Long Grows Grief Baby Bed Singing Lows Flow Empty And Love Feds Milk Nurse Pillow

Book:Hannah Coulter: A Novel

Source: Hannah Coulter: A Novel

“The heart that loves must one day grieve. Love and grief are the Goddess's twined gifts. Let the pain in, let it open your heart to compassion. Let me help you bear your grief and then may your heart ease and open to greater love. May the love that flows eternally through the universe embrace and comfort you. p.85”

Heart May Helping Pain Universe Grief Compassion Greater Bears Comfort One Day Flow Let Me Embrace Ease Grieving Goddess Open Your Heart Greater Love

Book:The Calling: Book Seven

Source: The Calling: Book Seven

“My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream.”

Ifs Thinking Dream Earth Beautiful Grief Magic Sky Tears Quiet Flow Rose Snow Touched Petals So Sad Rift

Author:Dylan Thomas

“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”

People May Moments Pain Fear Grief Flow Filled Brutal

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.”

Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“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

“Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.”

“The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.”

Heart Pleasure Grief Comfort Scene Flow Weight Exciting Impulse Thrown Bows Woe Pathways

Author:Alfred Bunn

“The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions