Recovery From Grief Quotes

If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that divides, it can be a pain that binds. Instead of a pain that breaks us down, it can be a pain that builds us up.

You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.

Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.

Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

Nothing you did could have changed anything. And that being angry and blaming yourself for not being able to control the past or the future is only going to hurt worse. If you keep thinking like this, you will only be re-inventing pain.Heaven would tell you that it’s just a little rain. And it’s not the rain that kills you, it’s the pain of wanting to control the sun.

Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.

You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.