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grief writing suffering
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop. C. S. Lewis
grief want way
I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes. Alan Davies
grief sorrow world
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize. Jane Austen
grief emotion sometimes
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over. Brent Sexton
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 capacity results
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- Abraham Verghese
grief too-much asks
Death is too much to ask of the living. Dodie Smith
grief people suffering
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love. Andrew Solomon
joys pains pass utter
Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life. Granth Sahib
joy desire pilgrim
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
joy poor
The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is. Greg Boyle
joy honor pathways
Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy. Charles Spurgeon
joy fine eliminating
There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous. Elbert Hubbard
joyfully lawn start wearing weeping
We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.
joy despair path
The path to joy leads through despair. Alexander Lowen
joy no-fear fear-of-death
I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience. Don Piper
joy ordinary ecstasy
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
immortality
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is. Gregory Maguire