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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 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 grieving alone-time
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it. Anne Lamott
grief rivers parent
Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.
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.
grief numbness next-day
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.
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.
grieving deep-water slides
A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under. Susanna Kearsley
grieving waiting missing
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. Walt Whitman
grieving towns emptiness
It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness. Miriam Toews
hands monitor
This is an unfortunate setback, and is in the hands of the medics, who will continually monitor the situation. Rob Andrew
hands paper found
The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated. Arthur Conan Doyle
hands house brain
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. Barbara Kingsolver
hands oysters cities
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell. Jan Morris
hands profound looks
We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women! Burt Ward
hands challenges goes-on
Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge. Carnie Wilson
hands judging size
The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself. Diana Vreeland
hands names guy
Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry. Elizabeth Scott
hands long people
A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere. Bobby Seale