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“Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal.”

Needs Order Grief Attention Wounds Heal

Book:The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

Source: The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

“President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a 'world order' dreamed up by a clutch of fantasists advising the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.”

People World Order President Grief Introducing Secretary President Bush Defence World Order Clutch

Author:Robert Fisk

“A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.”

People Knows Stills Ends Order Grief Brain Fire Fool Drug Paper Benefits Lips Cancer Chiefs Smoke Great Men Stomach Funeral Cigarette Sophisticated Tobacco Gloom

Author:Ann Landers

“The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.”

Thinking Writing Order Grief Horror Opposites Stakes Fallacy

Author:Richard Flanagan

“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.”

Home Body Faces Order Given Nations Grief Dog Fields Tears Masters Scene Battle Findings Decided Lays Soldier I Realized Deserted Licking Dog Loss Bonaparte

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.”

Order Forget Grief Philosopher Amusement Pastime Finality

Book:Tragic Sense of Life

Source: Tragic Sense of Life

“Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult times. He knows the deepest and most personal burdens we carry. He knows the most public and poignant pains we bear. He descended below al such grief in order that he might lift us above it. There is no anguish or sorrow or sadness in life that he has not suffered in our behalf and borne away upon his own valiant and compassionate shoulders.”

Knows Might Pain Order Difficult Christ Walks Grief Know How Path Sadness Bears Sorrow Burden Shoulders Mortals Lifts Als Compassionate Anguish Behalf Difficult Times Poignant Valiant Lds

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.”

People Thinking Knows Children Order Black Memories Poor Grief Patient Division Rejoice Poor People Violet Purple Be Patient Bereavement Rebellious Radiant

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.”

Want Doe Life Is Order Sex Grief Sorrow Command Mail Request Coerce

Book:Sita

Source: Sita

“I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”

Thinking Long Seems Pain Remember Order Fall Loses Sleep Grief Tree Letting Go Roots Seasons Riches Psychics Renewal Let It Go

Author:May Sarton