“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
“We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.” SufferingLossCreaturesCreatingSeeking Author:James Hollis
“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.” WorldLongIdeasLawOrderHouseGivenLossRoomsMankindCreaturesSupremeAbsurdCynicalSupreme Being Author:Peter De Vries
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.” IfsKnowsHeartKindPersonsSelfReasonPainPurposeInterestLossCompassionTeachHumilityTerribleCreaturesAll ThingsRegardMonstersRipSelf InterestBetter PersonUncaringCompassion For OthersNo Compassion Book:The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.” KnowsDifferentLossCreaturesRecoveryGet OverKinderGreat Loss Book:Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship