“But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.” PainLossWalksGriefPathWoundsBitterHopefullyDenialPace Book:The First Day of the Rest of My Life Source: The First Day of the Rest of My Life
“Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.” JoyPoetryGriefPathBearsPerceiveAbundanceInsultSurprisingTollsTransience Book:Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World Source: Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World
“It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something that is not my fault. But he sobering truth is that if I step onto the path of self-destruction, I know I will never come back.” IfsKnowsSelfEasyGriefStepsPathTruth IsDestructionFaultsAlcoholTemptationDullSelf DestructionAllure Author:Bill Jenkins
“The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.” KnowsJoyEasyGriefPathGloryMarchTriumphantCabinsSpacecraft Author:Yuri Gagarin