To speak of love in the past tense is not to know love at all. “Love, where it ever existed before, doesn't cease to exist. “When you are sorrowful look again into your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Kahlil Gibranġ9. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” – Kahlil Gibranġ8. In this way, love is both the cause and the antidote.” – Alan D. To honor your grief is not self-destructive or harmful, it is life-sustaining and life-giving, and it ultimately leads you back to love again. “To mourn your loss is required if you are to befriend the love you have been granted. If you love, you will grieve, and that’s just given.” – Kay Redfield Jamisonġ6. “Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Dr. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity the price you pay for love. “Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth IIġ4. “Grief opens a place in our hearts that we never knew could hurt so profoundly, but it also opens this same place to a love we never imagined possible” – Unknownġ3. We are merely in different rooms.” – Paulo Coelho, Alephġ2. They accompany us they don’t disappear from our lives. Keep in mind that a broken heart is an open heart.” – Louise Hay & David Kessler, You Can Heal Your Heartġ1. Love never dies, and spirit knows no loss. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. “Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbellġ0. Grief is the proof that love is still there.” – Tessa Shaffter, Heaven Has No Regretsĩ. “But in all of the sadness, when you’re feeling that your heart is empty, and lacking, you’ve got to remember that grief isn’t the absence of love. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.” - Henri NouwenĨ. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. The greatest pain comes from leaving…the pain of the leaving can tear us apart. “Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. “We need to grieve the ones we've lost - not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love.” – Jennifer Williamsonħ. “Grief only exists where love lived first.” – Franchesca CoxĦ. If we allow ourselves the grace that comes with love, however, we must allow ourselves the grace that is required to mourn.” – Alan D. Some people choose not to love and so never grieve. They are the yin and yang of our lives… Grief is predicated on our capacity to give and receive love. One does not-and cannot-exist without the other. “You see, love and grief are two sides of the same precious coin. The mind can’t handle emotions like grief and terror for any sustained period of time, so it takes some downtime.” – Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies: A NovelĤ. It’s not a slow progression forward toward healing, it’s a zigzag, a terrible back-and-forth from devastated to okay until finally there are more okay patches and fewer devastated ones. “When we lose someone we love we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.” –Unknownģ. What I needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered.” – John GreenĢ. “So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). 21 Grief Quotes That Highlight the Love You’ll Never Loseġ. If you want to honor the love that your pain stems from and goes back to, but you're not sure how, read these grief quotes. This, because you're here to experience it all. You'll find pain in letting go and hope in what you pick up. You learn to breathe it in and out, the love and the fear, all at the same time. It feels so like fear that it's hard to see how it can leave room for love.īut love finds its way through you. It's not something you can rush or push past. Grief is a heavy weight to carry and it's also an anchor in love. There’s an invisible thread connecting your heart to all hearts, you to all life. A window for fresh air in the middle of the storm, for a hope that comes after you've lost all hope. It hurts because it mattered, and it will always matter. I've learned that grief is another name for Love and that no matter how deep your grief makes a home in you, love will always leave a window open.
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