“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
“Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.” PeopleKnowsWorldLoveKindStillsRealCertainSexImaginationLossWalksCuttingMagicCoupleBenefitsStandingLeavingBlowSelfishnessChairsLeapInfatuationClownTremblingPropsMansionsSwampsStanding There Author:Toni Morrison
“What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.” EnoughSportsLossWalksRingsGood EnoughNot Good Enough Author:Don Shula
“The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.” MenEndsReasonRunningEvilFatherEasyLossWalksWonderfulMysteryDivineExerciseEternalElectionAffairConsiderationHeavenlyRunning AwayAccurateProvidenceSublimeHeavenly FatherLabyrinthDecreeMazesDivine ProvidenceMystery Of God Author:Ezekiel Hopkins
“A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.” IfsWayMayChildrenLongTwoRunningThreeLossWalksResultsCarMastersBabyTenGainsTablesCorePushingRacingLong RunsPullingIrrelevantSpectacularStretchingElusiveUnimportantAlphabetShrinkingRace CarIrrevocableChild DevelopmentInterim Author:Stella Chess
“A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.” WayHandsDiesLossWalksDogFieldsWinterDrawingPetAutumnFrostCanineCrispsOld WaysPet DogOld DogPet LossDog LossAutumn DaysSympathy For LossDog GriefGood DogPug DogsDog HeavenHeaven And DogsPets In HeavenDogs DyingDog Died Author:Mary Carolyn Davies