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Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons

“Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.”

Heart Values Heaven Loss Break Tears Sorrow Safety Grieving Flood

Book:Heaven: A Place--a City--a Home

Source: Heaven: A Place--a City--a Home

“No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.”

Lips Dumb Grieving

Book:Poems of power

Source: Poems of power

“Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go, They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,-- There are none to decline your nectar'd wine, But alone you must drink life's gall.”

Men Want Needs Turns Friendship Loses Pleasure Drink Wine Glad Grieving Rejoice Decline Woe Nectar

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth.”

Light Age Christian Sides Youth Sight Active Aids Wit Grieving Offensive Beam

Author:William Cowper

“O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.”

Should Music Sacred Grieving Streams Gluttony Intemperance

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.”

“Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.”

Kind Two Sometimes Three Friendship Lucky Summer Female Luck Lifetime Males Winter Grieving Rejoice Three Times True Friend

Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

“There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.”

Ifs Persons Impulse Grieving

Author:Joan Didion

“only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.”

Grief Direct Heal Grieving Passages Me Alone Passage Of Time Alone Time

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun The day, though bough with bough be overrun. But with a blessing every glade receives High salutation.”

Blessing Red Shame Grieving Autumn Sunlight November Salutations Red Leaves

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.”

Want Self Whole Spiritual Break Journey Broken Grieving Spiritual Journey

Author:Mark Nepo

“There is no shortcut to grieving.”

Grief Grieving Shortcuts

Author:Susan Sarandon

“One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.”

Children Two Passion Grows Loses Growing Up Tears Sorrow Capacity Function Rage Manage Manners Grieving Civilized

Book:Brief lives

Source: Brief lives

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

Source: Fantastic voyage II: destination brain

“Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.”

Thinking World Ill Grieving

Book:V is for Vengeance

Source: V is for Vengeance

“Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.”

Ifs Dies Fortune Grieving Boots Good Fortune

Author:Maynard Owen Williams

“Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite.”

May Feelings Loss Grief Regret Sorrow Longing Grieving Tension Emptiness Appetite Anguish Mixtures Exhaustion Deprivation Sleeplessness

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

“I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.”

Thinking Knows Different Lost Grieving Deep Love One You Love Someone You Love Lost Someone

Author:Lee Radziwill

“Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is the optional part. Remember that you come into this world in the middle of the movie, and you leave in the middle; and so do the people you love. Love never dies, and spirit knows no loss.”

Source: You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death

“Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.”

People Used Grieving Survivor Departed

Author:Saib Tabrizi

“Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.”

Grieving Rejoice

Book:Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Source: Romance of the Three Kingdoms

“To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.”

Should Pain Lasts Evil Causes Poverty Greater Sorrow Grieving Melancholy Morbid Forerunners

Book:The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781

Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781

“If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!”

Ifs Would Be Lost Poor Grief Pay Grieving Sooner Or Later Penalties

Author:Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

“We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.”

Might Wonder Forever Grieving Exception Suspended Rhetorical

Book:Homebody/Kabul: Final Revised Version

Source: Homebody/Kabul: Final Revised Version

“The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.”

Knows Wells Girl Gone Ordinary Passing Passings Fallen Grieving Conventions Cherries Fads Cherry Blossom

Book:The Makioka Sisters

Source: The Makioka Sisters

“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.”

“We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.”

Seems Earth Promise Seasons Grieving Cheating Cycles Mortality Allowing Greenery

Book:Hang-ups: Essays on Painting (mostly)

Source: Hang-ups: Essays on Painting (mostly)

“You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there” when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.”

Ideas States Feelings Social Forget Grief Situation Worry Sadness Strange Constant Lifts No Idea Grieving Spouse Fog Cloaks

Author:Mary Potter

“You have no idea how hard it is to grieve and fall madly in love at the same time.”

Ideas Hard Fall No Idea Grieving Madly In Love

Author:Didi

“Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.”

Ifs May Soul Sin Cases Too Much Committed Grieving Desperate

Author:Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

“There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.”

Running Process Memories Walks Grieving Running Away Grieving Process

Author:Patti Davis

“The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.”

Jesus Christ Return Blessing Jesus Christ Thanks Manifestation Grieving Definite Ingratitude

Author:R. A. Torrey

“Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.”

Hard Lying Speak Heaven Grief Cry Mines Stones Dear Grieving Spheres Darling

Author:Petrarch

“What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.”

Should Writing Wells Poetry Wish Hell Poet Brother Grieving Rivals

Book:The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841

Source: The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841

“With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.”

Ifs Pain Bears Punishment Grieving

Author:Ovid

“They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.”

Needs May Lord Grieving Nobility Donate Austria

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.”

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