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“Each person's grief journey is unique as a fingerprint or a snowflake.”

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Author:Earl A Grollman

“Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.”

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Author:Anne Grant

“Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The packages are the poems and they sit shiny and new on every page of this fabulous and generous book. I want to go into the world that these poems create, just so that I can be given these terrifying presents again and again. I know you will, too. See you there.”

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Author:Dorothea Lasky

“I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.”

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Author:James Van Praagh

“In some ways, Lotus Eaters is a journey disguised as a party film; there's a circus in the movie, and there are parties, but the real story is of an internal journey. There's themes of emptiness and excess and beauty and grief around it, but it's always surrounded by these glamorous events, and those are ways of waylaying her on her journey in the same way that it is in the ancient Greek story.”

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Author:Alexandra McGuinness

“I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.”

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Author:Kathleen Battle

“The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.”

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Author:Lillian Smith

“I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia.”

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Book:Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

Source: Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

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Author:Kenji Miyazawa

“Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.”

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Author:John Wayne

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Tori Amos

“Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry