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John Gunther

All the wonderful things in life are so simple that one is not aware of their wonder until they are beyond touch. Never have I felt the wonder and beauty and joy of life so keenly as now in my grief that Johnny is not here to enjoy them.

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Edwin Paxton Hood

And of all the griefs that mortals share, the one that seems the hardest to bear is the grief without community.

Grief | Wisdom |

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John Oldham

Music's the cordial of a troubled breast, the softest remedy that grief can find.

Grief | Music | Wisdom |

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Sydney Smith

Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? Every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.

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Xenophon, aka Xenophon of Athens NULL

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Excess | Grief | Madness | Wisdom |

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Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Grief |

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Dhammapada NULL

From love comes grief, from greed comes fear; he who is free from greed knows neither grief nor fear.

Fear | Greed | Grief | Love |

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Dhammapada NULL

From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear; he who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear.

Fear | Grief | Pleasure |

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Georgia Harkness

God is the source and goal of ideals by which to live triumphantly in the face of starkest grief. The sufferer who finds God as the strength and mainstay of his life does not merely acquiesce before the inevitable with stoic fortitude. He looks the tragedy in the face, and looks up to new heights of spiritual beauty to which he may mount by using his grief as a stairway to God’s glory.

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Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind. He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he proposes to remove.

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Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he proposes to remove.

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Deena Metzger

Meaning is at the core of the creative process and of storytelling… When it is our own life story we are telling or a story from our lives, we become aware that we are not the victims of random and chaotic circumstances, that we, too, despite our grief or feelings of insignificance, are living meaningfully in a meaningful universe.

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Isavasya Upanishad

He who discerns all creatures in his Self, and his Self in all creatures, has no disquiet thence. What delusion, what grief can be with him?

Delusion | Grief | Self |

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Zhang Zai, also Chang Tsai

Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

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