“When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and blazon from sea to sea In the name of the Dead the banner of Peace ... that will be Victory.” MayChildrenWarTodayNamesGriefSeaVictoryMadnessBanner Author:Robert W. Service
“Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.” ThinkingI CanReasonTodayMovingBeliefGriefGoneRiskMinutesTomorrowRight NowGloryMysteriousTidesHere Today Gone Tomorrow Book:High Tide in Tucson Source: High Tide in Tucson
“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.” TodayGriefTearsTomorrowWasteLosingTragedyYesterdayWorried Author:Euripides
“I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose the truth in ways that are uncomfortable and that, yes, require courage. What I caution against is using hateful rhetoric to inspire action, and I see a lot of that today. We strengthen the underlying field of hatred, dehumanization, and conquest. It certainly doesn't engage what allows people to do courageous things and to commit deeply, which is the experience of beauty, love, grief.” PeopleThinkingMindTodayActionWaitingGriefInspireHatredCommitUncomfortableCourageousRhetoricConquestCautionHatefulDehumanization Author:Charles Eisenstein
“I treat anger, grief and strife as a sin, so I let all that go and I am no longer living a sinful life. Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.” TodayChoicesSinPerfectGriefBlessingBlessedConfessionBeing Blessed Author:Kam Williams
“I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.” NeedsWellsChildrenStillsTodaySufferingGriefJourneyEventsGoes OnSorrowOvercomingYour ChildrenGrandchildrenChildren And GrandchildrenCulminationIncremental Change Author:Kathleen Battle
“Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.” PeopleWayTodayPastRememberMemoriesGriefGreaterToo MuchHabitEqualOppositesErrorsInsightFallenRepeatsFewerEpigramsPunditsRemembering The PastMisquoting Author:David Hackett Fischer
“All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it or panic or just be grief-stricken about it; but a year or two from now or maybe ten years from now, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in that problem.” YearsMeanTwoProblemMightHappensTodayAbleCan DoGriefCryMonthsTenOur FamilyPanicTwo DaysTwo Months Author:Robert Orben