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The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
Vicki Harrison
The only cure for grief is to grieve.
Earl Grollman
Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.
Earl Grollman
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.
Hilary Stanton Zunin
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
Russell M. Nelson
The reality is that we don't forget, move on, and have closure. But rather we honor, we remember, and incorporate our deceased children and siblings into our lives in a new way. In fact, keeping memories of your loved one alive in your mind and heart is an important part of your healing journey.
Harriet Schiff
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Bear Grylls
The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.
Anonymous
The only way to get through grief is to get through it.
Anonymous
The only way to heal a broken heart is to give God all the pieces.
Anonymous
The only way to move on is to let go.
Anonymous
The only way to succeed is to learn from failure.
Anonymous
The only way to win is to never give up.
Anonymous
The only way to find happiness is to create it.
Anonymous
The only way to make a difference is to be different.
Anonymous
Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.
Unknown
Healing is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.
W.H. Auden
The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.
Robert James Waller
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Rumi
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler
The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
Miuccia Prada
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Barbara De Angelis
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
It's not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott
It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
J.K. Rowling
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is an opportunity for growth.
Unknown
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The only way to do anything is to do it.
John Steinbeck
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development.
Jim Rohn
The only way to change the world is to change the story.
David Loy
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
Thomas Moore
The only way to get through a difficult time is to keep moving forward.
Unknown
The only way to get through grief is to grieve.
Unknown
The only way to get through failure is to learn from it.
Unknown
The only way to get through a tough time is to have support.
Unknown
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Thomas Fuller
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on.
Unknown
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.
Zig Ziglar
The greatest teacher, failure is.
Yoda
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on
Neil Gaiman
The only way to get through grief is to get through it
John Green
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar
Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.
Jimmy Buffett
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
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