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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!
(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.
Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.
There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
But the main thing is to give people permission to feel it and to put grief at the heart of what Extinction Rebellion's about.
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.
I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this.
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.
She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills
The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.
If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed.
Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.
Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.
If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own
Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.
One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.
The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.
One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.
From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.