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“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

“A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.”

“The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.”

Littles Body Lasts Spirit Grief Half Mountain Importance Finals Buried Stillness Shells Slipping Mountain Top

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.”

People World Littles Can Do Common Grief Worst Despair Tragedy

Book:The Daughters of Danaus

Source: The Daughters of Danaus

“Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true”

Littles Grief Funeral

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.”

Littles Care Fall Loss Grief Kindness Security Sorrow Safe Busy Soldier Employment Leisure Spares Idleness Antidote Lamentation Seamen

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius