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Related MELINA MARCHETTA JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ ROBIN HOBB It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead. SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS JEFFREY FRY BHAGAVAD GITA If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... I just felt like they were looking down on us. We can just grieve in private now. That's what we nee... JANICE RENN And reckon not those who are killed in Allah's way as dead; nay, they are alive (and) are provided s... QURAN MEGAN WHALEN TURNER AKIROQ BROST The very best thing we can do for others isn’t soaking up their pain, it is actually holding space... MATEO SOL KATE MOSSE MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN CHARLES FRAZIER We give people a safe place to grieve. KAY WILSBACH C. JOYBELL C. The words you can’t find, you borrow.GABRIELLE ZEVIN MARK TWAIN I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M TAHEREH MAFI DAVE REICHERT SENECA And let not those grieve you who fall into unbelief hastily; surely they can do no harm to Allah at ... QURAN We've kind of been in a mode where we've had to see justice through, now we feel like we can finally... GERRI FLYNN We grieve for Amadou Diallo and the four officers involved and pray they get a fair trial, HOWARD SAFIR KHALED HOSSEINI DEYTH BANGER To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING E.M. FORSTER RALPH WALDO EMERSON No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so u... ALYSIA REINER DAVID LEVITHAN Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever belie... QURAN If they swim slow, we are where we need to be. Right now they should be exhausted and sleeping more ... FRANCIE RENFRO I don't want to imply there aren't enough people here. Of course there are a lot of people looking f... KATHY KELLY MAXINE WATERS A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON As we are rebuilding, it seems that the hurricane is so far behind us. But these animals still haven... FMHS PRESIDENT LINDA NORMAN GEORGE R. R. MARTIN MAURICE MAETERLINCK What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA GEORGE CHAPMAN I'm not one to grieve too hard or too long over golf. I'm disappointed, mostly for the girls. They t... CATRIN NILSMARK Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER Their home did get damaged some. They are able to live there, but it's no environment for them to be... DOROTHY GIBSON BHAGAVAD GITA BHAGAVAD GITA GEORGE ORWELL We are here to create, not destroy. VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė My heart is broken and I grieve, for I have known love. Your heart is broken and you grieve, for you... JESIKAH SUNDIN For about two and half years now we've been sending packages to our military where ever they're depl... KATHY BUCKLEY STEPHEN CHBOSKY TAHEREH MAFI It's not going to be a happy ending for everybody. There need to be cuts. I understand that. But whe... KATHRYN DONAHUE If someone feels they need to come back for a second session, we can have them do that. If there are... KAY WILSBACH MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM We call them 'Mystery Missions' because the kids sign up by faith. They have no idea where they are ... LAURA HOVI Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves LYNN CAINE Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they t... BIBLE Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do ... CESAR MILLAN ANONYMOUS ELLA WHEELER WILCOX PICO IYER STEPHEN SONDHEIM Pain only shows us we've lost something that was intimately involved in our lives. Why on earth woul... ASHLEY NIKOLE PAULO COELHO UNKNOWN Where is General Garner now? ... The people need assistance here in Nasiriya. Why are they not here?... AHMAD CHALABI Many times in our society, children are the forgotten grievers because they don't grieve the way we ... DAVID KESSLER What you gotta think about is what they're saying in their locker room. They need to jump on us. On ... SUE BIRD If they are using more precise aircraft, there is a ground for us to be extra worried. We are waitin... ERNEST WAMBA SHERYL SANDBERG We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON HENRY CLOUD The longer and closer their association has been, the more strongly and the longer they are likely t... DR. JESSICA JAHIEL We are now taking deals from those players, where before they got them for no apparent reason, ... C... MARTEN MICKOS MORRIE SCHWARTZ Are your rights to protest more important than my rights to grieve? JULIE MACKENZIE CARLES PUIGDEMONT We are not in a situation where we have to form a federal government at all costs and there is no re... ZORAN DJINDJIC CASSANDRA CLARE MARGARET ATWOOD Here we are now the first day of autumn and those lakes are a long way below where they should be, a... ALAN SEAY CONFUCIUS It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are no old people nowadays; they are either 'wonderful for their age' or dead. MARY PETTIBONE POOLE There is no search area now because we don't know where they are. BILL MISKELL Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tom... ANNA CUMINS
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Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them? 
Past relationships are a loss, so we have to deal with them like loss. We must fully grieve. We must... 
Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years. 
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. 
Divine qualities lead to nirvana, the demonic [qualities] are said to be for bondage. Do not grieve,... 
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness. 
Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. 
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, neve... 
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person in... 
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person i... 
And it was pointless...to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hard... 
Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be plac... 
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the peop... 
In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take eve... 
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to priv... 
It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that... 
Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not,
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to sav... 
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... 
You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. 
We have suffered discrimination. We have suffered isolation and undermining. But we stand up for Ame... 
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri... 
Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed;
Once I went back when a good monarch prayed;
Mortals... 
Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed
over the face of the whole earth. B... 
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not fo... 
For certain is death for the born
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness. 
So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... 
There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitionary world. It's t... 
There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their hom... 
The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There was never a time when you and I and a... 
No one will grieve because your lips are dumb. 
Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are ... 
Sometimes people leave you halfway through the woods. Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for go... 
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us. 
People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome. 
Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ... 
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again. 
They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where ... 
As Luke knelt down beside his corpse, Clary couldn’t help but remember what he had said about havi... 
Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing... 
Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead. 
Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... 
Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ... 
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silenc... 
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and ... 
For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; 
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a... 
They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy... 
Virtue should always be colmingled with humor. 
In yourself right now is all the place you've got. 
[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes ... 
Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t... 
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You... 
Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued... 
She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her th... 
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the tr... 
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. 
You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. Y... 
They should."
I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of t... 
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. 
And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often...