“Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter---those who thus fail to correct sinners---actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.” ShouldSufferingWishCausesLossHealingClearFailingDestructionSaintVicesAcceptedSupremeSinnerPlotRemedyGood HealthTrue LifeRebuke Author:Saint Basil
“Grief is real because loss is real. Each grief has its own imprint, as distinctive and as unique as the person we lost. The pain of loss is so intense, so heartbreaking, because in loving we deeply connect with another human being, and grief is the reflection of the connection that has been lost. We think we want to avoid the grief, but really it is the pain of the loss we want to avoid. Grief is the healing process that ultimately brings us comfort in our pain.” ThinkingWantHumansPersonsHas BeensRealPainLostProcessHuman BeingsLossGriefHealingComfortUniqueReflectionConnectionsIntenseHeartbreakingDistinctiveHealing Process Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“I used to think that communing with nature was a healing, positive thing. Now, I think I'd like to commune with other things - like room service and temperature control.” ThinkingUsedNatureLossRoomsHealingDisasterTemperaturePositive ThingsCommunesRoom Service Book:Roseanne: my life as a woman Source: Roseanne: my life as a woman
“In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.” WayPersonsSometimesLostLossHealingLaughterTragedyMidst Author:Alan Alda
“Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, honoring the memory of the thousands of victims of these brutal attacks and comforting those who lost loved ones. We will persevere through this national tragedy and personal loss. In time, we will find healing and recovery; and, in the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, "one Nation under God."” HumorAmericaFacesPoliticalEvilLostStrongNationsMemoriesPrayerLossUnitedHealingTragedyVictimBlessedScriptureRecoveryLoved OnesLost LoveBrutalRemembranceComfortingPersevereMournPolitical HumorAmerican FamilyOne Nation Under GodBlessed Are ThoseLost Loved OnesNational Day Of PrayerPersonal Loss Author:George W. Bush
“Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.” KnowsHumansKindDeathSufferingEasyLossAnimalDealsGriefHealingAttitudeSorrowSingersLife And DeathEnablingPet LossDealing With Death Author:Emmylou Harris
“Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.” WayHeartDoneTurnsLossForgetHealingMysteryCreaturesSolitaryOne LoveLove And Loss Book:My sad republic Source: My sad republic
“This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say good-bye to life itself with our death. Learn to say a good good-bye. Allow yourself to mourn each loss. As with a physical wound, the body has its own schedule for healing. It will tell you when it has healed.” PeopleIdeasBodyLossHealingLifetimeWoundsOur TimeSchedulesHealedMournByeGood ByeSaying Good Bye Author:Peter McWilliams
“Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.” PeopleIfsMenGivingArtEndsEnoughCarePainRememberCoursesMemoriesLossPowerfulHealingTakenReturnMountainDevilArmyNotionDustHardshipAshesEnough TimeGod Is ThereDust To Dust Author:Diana Gabaldon
“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.” WantFeelsI CanReasonLossHealingUglyHealGoodbyeSmoothSaying GoodbyeTime Heals Author:China Mieville
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.” WantShouldWholeRealitySufferingChangeLossGriefHealingForeverLearningOvercomingHealGrievingMourningGrief And LossLoved OnesDeath Of A Loved OneGet OverChanging Your LifeMournRebuildingSamenessPainful MemoriesGriefingLosing SomeoneLosing A Loved OneLoss Of A Loved OneGrief LossDeath GriefGrief And DeathThose GrievingOvercoming DepressionYour LossGrief And MourningGrieving A DeathDeath And GrievingDeath And LossHelp With GriefGrief And HopeLosing LoveMourning Loss Loved OneDeath GrievingLoved One DyingMourning LossGrieving LossLoved Ones Who DiedDeath And MourningDeath MourningHealing From LossMourning A LossMourning DeathGrieving A LossGrieving And Loss Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.” Has BeensLossHealingHonorAffectionBrotherhoodTendernessMemorandum Book:The Living Fire Source: The Living Fire
“Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.” WritingMayMeanStoriesRealizingLossGriefEmotionHealingGrief And LossNot AloneUnitingGrief Healing Author:Susan Wittig Albert
“My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.” HeartHas BeensBookStoriesLossHealingSonLessonsSingingTragedyMemoirMy SonLife LessonAftermathStory Of My LifeLove LossTrust Your Heart Author:Judy Collins
“I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.” WantSexHurtMy OwnLossSinHealingSorrowDrugProgramOriginalsSatisfactionAlcoholWoundsFulfillmentSicknessRitualPollutionNeedyOriginal SinPurificationVagrantsLeechesLechery Author:Lydia Lunch
“The part of us that feels anger and depression is the same part that feels peace and love. If you refuse to feel the anger and the pain of a loss, you will not be able to feel anything else until that area heals. In other words, stay out of your own way. Let yourself feel bad if you want to feel bad. Feel joy, too. Healing is taking place. Give yourself the gift of healing.” IfsWayWantGivingFeelsAblePainJoyLossHealingDepressionAreasAnd LoveRefuseHealPeace And Love Author:Peter McWilliams
“Good analysts and therapists can help us to recognize parts of ourselves we have repressed and denied. The shamanic concept of soul loss reaches further. It recognizes that soul healing is also about retrieving pieces of soul that have literally gone missing and need to be located and persuaded to return and take up residence in the body where they belong.” NeedsSoulHelpingBodyLossHealingGonePiecesMissingReturnConceptsDeniedTherapistsAnalystsRepressedResidenceSoul Healing Author:Robert Moss
“All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.” KnowsPainRealizingLossHealingTeachStruggleSorrowLessonsSerendipityLearning Life Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach