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“Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In truth, none of us would want another's grief as a testimonial of their love for us. More likely we would want our loved ones to live healthy, fulfilled lives without us.”

Want Long Suffering Grief Healthy Grieving Loved Ones Fulfilled Misconception Fulfilled Life Testimonial

Author:Judy Tatelbaum

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.”

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Author:Ruth Graham

“Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.”

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Author:David Mitchell

“Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you”

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Author:John Green

“You do not have to remain stuck in your grief forever when you realize that your loved ones who have passed continue on with you, side-by-side with you, in your lives, even though they have their own life going on across the veil.”

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Author:Suzanne Giesemann

“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?”

Grief Poet Loved Ones Wretched Ugliness

Book:The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden

Source: The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.”

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.”

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Book:Voices of Death

Source: Voices of Death

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”

“A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.”

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Book:Learning to say good-by

Source: Learning to say good-by

“Death cannot kill what never dies.”

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“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

“When you pray to God resignedly, as though patiently accepting the punishment of grief at the death of a loved one, and you say: "Thy will be done O Lord. The Lord giveth, and he taketh away", you have not yet known the God of love, for God giveth only. God never takes that which has not been given. What God gives to you you regive to Him for His regiving. You rejoice when God gives birth to life, yet you deeply grieve when you give rebirth to new life - for that is what death is.”

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Author:Walter Russell