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  Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Grief, Truth, Wisdom

  Tags in Understanding, Pain

• The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

  Pierre Auguste Renoir

  Topics in Beauty, Grief
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  Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Topics in Grief, Life

  Tags in Happiness, Feeling

• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

  C. S. Lewis

  Topics in Fear, Grief

• There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Topics in Grief, Inspirational

  Tags in Happiness, Hope

• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

  Agatha Christie

  Topics in Grief, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Despair

• There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Grief, Life

  Tags in Happiness

• My life closed twice before its close;
  It yet remains to see
  If Immortality unveil
  A third event to me,
  So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
  As these that twice befell.
  Parting is all we know of heaven,
  And all we need of hell.

  Emily Dickinson

  Topics in Death, Grief, Life, Suffering

  Tags in Immortality, Heaven, Hell

• The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

  Eudora Welty

  Topics in Grief, Joy, Life

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  Hafez

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Hope, Despair, Happiness

• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Topics in Grief, Inspirational

  Tags in Winter, Wealth, Spring, Difficulties

• Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Topics in Grief, Life

• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Grief, Joy, Life

• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — myth is more potent than history — dreams are more powerful than facts — hope always triumphs over experience — laughter is the cure for grief — love is stronger than death.

  Robert Lee Fulghum

  Topics in Belief, Death, Experience, Grief, History, Knowledge, Life, Love

  Tags in Myth, Facts, Hope, Imagination

• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Topics in Advice, Confusion, Friendship, Grief, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Confusion, Despair

• For everything there is a season,
  And a time for every matter under heaven:
  A time to be born, and a time to die;
  A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
  A time to kill, and a time to heal;
  A time to break down, and a time to build up;
  A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
  A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
  A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
  A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
  A time to seek, and a time to lose;
  A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
  A time to tear, and a time to sew;
  A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  A time to love, and a time to hate,
  A time for war, and a time for peace.

  Ecclesiastes

  Topics in Attitude, Death, Grief, Love

  Tags in Diversity, Heaven, Purpose, Creed, Credo

• I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.

  Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

  Topics in Grief, Life, Love

  Tags in Creed, Credo
• 

  As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.

  Dorothy Parker

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Difficulties, City, Through

• My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

  Isabel Allende

  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Writing, Struggle, Moments, Happy

• It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

  Chanakya

  Topics in Grief, Life

  Tags in Disgrace, Better, Loss, Cause