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grief people empathy
After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst. Elif Safak
grief expecting least-expecting
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it. Dominic Cooper
grief too-much asks
Death is too much to ask of the living. Dodie Smith
grief feet tears
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. Anne Lamott
grief home breathing
But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home. Anne Lamott
grief insomnia call-me
Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief. Anna Akhmatova
grief
When grief is deepest, words are fewest. Ann Voskamp
grief light work-out
Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11). Ann Voskamp
grief men justice
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. Albert Camus
writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing thinking talking
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic. Barbara Kingsolver
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. Barbara Kingsolver
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
writing down-and ritual
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day. Augusten Burroughs
writing language clarity
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
writing i-can ifs
If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller
suffering done care
Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done Bobby Hull
suffering needs
All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering. Arthur Schopenhauer
suffering despise stills
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism. Edward Abbey
suffering
We learn from the things we suffer. Aesop
suffering may individual
When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering. Aldous Huxley
suffering desire comfort
The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness. Dalai Lama
suffering someone-you-love teach
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. Dodie Smith
suffering spirituality transformation
Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it. Desmond Tutu
suffering causes pleasure
I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure. Delmore Schwartz