“There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.” IfsThinkingMindWellsLooksMayHas BeensEndsRememberJoyGriefStepsWalkingLifetimeClimbsClimbingHikingPrudenceHasteMomentaryMountain ClimbingClimbing MountainNegligenceInspirational Mountain ClimbingClimbing Mountains Inspirational Author:Edward Whymper
“Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.” ThinkingLyingCoursesPleasureGriefAdultsToughDisappointmentSensitive Author:Jean Louis
“One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.” PeopleThinkingHappensRealizingGriefCrazyMake Sense Author:Joan Didion
“When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.” IfsThinkingFeelsKindMayChildrenLongHardYoungMotherFatherGriefReturnUltimateDiedAngryInnocentRomantic LoveUnrequited LoveLove SomeoneUnrequitedYoung ChildrenAbusiveKinds Of LoveMother LoveAbusive Father Author:Rosamund Lupton
“I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.” ThinkingYearsStoriesJoyMotherFoundGivenImaginationGriefFiveSixDelightTalesChiefsFairyGiven UpFairy Stories Author:George Sand
“We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.” IfsThinkingWritingHumansMadeHardEnoughHuman BeingsGriefOur LivesAliveDisciplineAccountsInsightMythWeatherYieldWoeInexplicableSeizures Author:May Sarton
“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.” ThinkingLongSeemsPainRememberOrderFallLosesSleepGriefTreeLetting GoRootsSeasonsRichesPsychicsRenewalLet It Go Author:May Sarton