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“But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.”

Pain Loss Walks Grief Path Wounds Bitter Hopefully Denial Pace

Book:The First Day of the Rest of My Life

Source: The First Day of the Rest of My Life

“Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.”

Joy Poetry Grief Path Bears Perceive Abundance Insult Surprising Tolls Transience

Book:Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

Source: Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

“It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something that is not my fault. But he sobering truth is that if I step onto the path of self-destruction, I know I will never come back.”

Ifs Knows Self Easy Grief Steps Path Truth Is Destruction Faults Alcohol Temptation Dull Self Destruction Allure

Author:Bill Jenkins

“The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.”

Knows Joy Easy Grief Path Glory March Triumphant Cabins Spacecraft

Author:Yuri Gagarin

“There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful.”

People Easy Loss Grief Path Trauma Helpful

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Firsts Heart Said Ends Faces Loss Grief Path Greater Fashion Sorrow Despair Gains Rough Shade Clay Giving Back Vessel Crude Wool

Book:The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

“Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.”

Inspirational Grief Path Strength Consequence Crosses Shame Bereavement

Book:Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night

Source: Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night

“How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering. People follow different paths, straight or crooked, according to their temperament, depending on which they consider best, or most appropriate -- and all reach You, just as rivers enter the ocean.”

People Two Different War Suffering Causes Grief Path Ocean Rivers Appropriate Temperament Crooked Different Paths Do You Love Me

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Do you believe you can change your destiny?' he (Sajhë) said, seeking an answer. Alice found herself nodding. 'Otherwise, what's the point? If we are simply walking a path preordained, then all the experiences that make us who we are - love, grief, joy, learning, changing - would count for nothing.”

Ifs Believe Said Joy Found Answers Grief Destiny Path Walking Seeking Who We Are Your Destiny Believe You Can Nodding

Author:Kate Mosse

“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

“You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.”

Way Pain Loss Walks Grief Path Feet Daughter Betrayal Trials Forests Straight Path

Book:Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

Source: Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

“There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.”

Way Suffering Realizing Grief Path Sorrow Overcoming Secure Release Buddhist Right Path

Author:Gautama Buddha

“And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq by American weapons.... Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer, they will find the right solution and the right path.”

World Feels Should Home Pain Beautiful Suffering Grief Path Building Weapons Solutions Iraq Destroyed Owners September Palestine September 11 Right Path Lebanon Skyscraper Your Beautiful

Author:Saddam Hussein

“"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."”

Source: Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series