Best grief & use Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.”

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.”

People World Use Age Happiness Joy Given Imagination Grief Wonderful Childhood Unhappy Bland Happy Childhood Unhappy Childhood

Author:Sue Grafton

“Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in other ways. I can create with them in my writing and my life, mix them up with excitement and pleasure. I can name that terrible, numbing paralysis and know it will pass.”

Knows Way Writing I Can Use Names Pleasure Grief Destiny Terrible Despair Familiar Excitement Traits Rulers Almighty Our Destiny Your Destiny Paralysis Numbing

Author:Margo Jefferson

“Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding.”

Looks Use Pain Father Understanding Growth Challenges Grief Tools Pressure Personal Growth Discomfort

Author:Richard G. Scott

“I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience.”

World Writing I Can Moments Stories Use Joy Grief Metaphor Make Sense Nightmare Cash

Author:Grant Morrison

“I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.”

Long Book Reason Use Body Hands Moving Left Grief Position Goes On Bed Long Time Sitting Weight Lays Dinner Finished Breathe Bother No Reason Cheeks Bent Sigh Slides Pillow Why Bother

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity”

Want Heart Use Earth House Grief Morning Industry Eternity After Death Sweeping Bustle Morning After

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value of this rug?” I didn’t think his nostrils could flare any wider. His eyes were black flame. “Pernicious? Good grief, is English your second language? Third?” Only someone who’d learned English from a dictionary would use such a word. “Fifth,” he snarled. “Answer me.”

Thinking Ideas Use Might Eye Values Language Black Answers Grief Thirds Flames His Eyes Flirting Fifth Dictionary Fae Lanes Pernicious Flare

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.”

Feels Heart Soul Sometimes Use Pain Lying Language Given Sin Grief Brain Half Cold Exercise Clothes Dull Weed Mechanic Wraps Outlines Narcotics Numbing Heart And Brain

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.”

Art War Use Purpose Force Grief Cases Issues Achieve Depends Resources Persuasion Art Of War

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.”

Use Grief Grieving Prime Grief And Loss Griefing Grief Loss Help With Grief

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.”

“One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.”

Use Motivational Pain Can Do Grief Without Pain

Author:Bernie Siegel

“Most people don't ever want to use a gun to protect themselves - that's the last thing they want to do - but if you know how and you have a situation with some fruitcake running around, like they've got right now, it sure can save you a lot of grief.”

People Ifs Knows Want Use Running Lasts Grief Situation Know How Right Now Protect Gun Gun Control Fruitcake

Author:Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

“A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.”

Men Use Political Politics Wish Grief Cases Goodness Be Good Profession

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.”

Knows War Use Grief Cry Honor Glory Empty Killing Abstract Mask Chests Wounded Jingoism

Author:Chris Hedges

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