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“When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.”

Heart Lying Song Simple Grief Cutting Sea Dog Wind Broken Bird Blow Wounds Tiny Rings Holes Bells Salt Cracked Clutch Stray Dogs

Author:Michael Leunig

“At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds”

“Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.”

Heart Made Joy Force Grief Pride My Heart Waste Hatred Distance Prepared Terror Revenge Rage Selfish Pursuit Crowns Savages Helplessness

Book:I explain a few things: selected poems

Source: I explain a few things: selected poems

“Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.”

Thinking Men Heart Stills Suffering Memories Sleep Pleasure Grief Chorus Zeus

Author:Aeschylus

“Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways.”

“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

“See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the world. The most important part of the business lies between God and our own souls, in the frame of our spirits and the working of our hearts, in our actions that no eye sees except the all-seeing God. Justly are the saints called God's hidden ones, and His secret is said to be with them. They have meat to eat and work to do that the world does not know of, as well as joys, griefs, and cares that a stranger does not share.”

Knows World Wells Heart Doe Said Important Soul Eye Care Action Christian Joy Spirit Lying Grief Secret Seeing Share Saint Stranger Observation Meat Our Actions Concealed Good Christian

Author:Matthew Henry

“It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.”

Humans Heart Long Pain Faces Song Prayer Grief Silence Tears Honor Clouds Storm Genuine Grieving Vulnerability Touching Hopelessness Face To Face Helplessness Storm Clouds

Author:Jack Kornfield

“For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.”

People Wells Heart Self Sometimes Whole Grief Flats Sane Complaints Stride Accomplices Ambush

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.”

Source: William McKinley, 1843-1901: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids

“I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.”

World Mind Heart Made Hard Suffering Grief My Heart Injustice Stupidity Surface Cruelty Enjoyment Endurance Steel Polished Passed Away

Book:Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms

Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms

“Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.”

World Heart Persons States Feelings Seems Turns Universe Imagination Grief Figures Emotional Relate Beloved Rome Being In Love Pivotal Emotional Life

Book:Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

Source: Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

“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

“The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.”

World Way Heart Long Might Lost Grief Break Knowing Internals Aftermath Break Your Heart

Author:Mark Doty

“Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain. Through want of a thing does its worth redouble, Through hunger's pangs does the feast content, And only the heart that has harboured trouble Can fully rejoice when joy is sent. Let no one shrink from the bitter tonics Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife, For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonics Are found in the minor strains of life.”

Knows Want Needs Heart Doe Soul Moments Pain Joy Asks Found Loss Grief Trouble Sweet Praying Sorrow Gains Lifetime Hunger Bitter Rejoice Yearning Minors Strife Strain Chords Shrinks Morrow

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“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 word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.”

Heart Whole Joy Suffering Given Perfect Grief Sweet Sorrow Offers Given Up Illumination Rushing Martyred

Book:Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

“The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.”

Heart Night Suffering Grief My Heart Sorrow Evening Dusk Cadence

Book:The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950

Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950

“Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.”

Heart Past Grief Ready Over The Past

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“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

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”

Ifs Heart Pain Grief Compassion Garden Allies Griefing Grief Loss Searching For Love Pain And Loss Love And Wisdom

Author:Rumi

“Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.”

Men Heart Hands Eye Happiness Faces Joy Dies Grows Grief Tears Wind Laughter Blow Heavy Breasts Tides Stride Tidy

Book:Poetry

Source: Poetry

“It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He tempts them to sin, and then to regard themselves as too vile to approach their heavenly Father or to excite His pity. The Lord understands all this. Jesus assures His disciples of God's sympathy for them in their needs and weaknesses. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart.”

Source: The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated

“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?”

“Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul. In them men wrestle with principalities and powers... ”The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.”

Ifs Men Heart Soul Prayer Grief Cry Broken Praying Battle Lips Phrases Collections Balanced Pouring Fiery Fingertips What Is Love Earnestness

Author:Samuel Chadwick

“An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.”

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