Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. - Edna St. Vincent Millay When one is pretending, the entire body revolts. - Anais Nin You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. - C.S. Lewis You have not lived a perfect day…unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to pay you back. - Ruth Smeltzer The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” - Lois Lowry Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha. - Robert Brault There’s a fine edge to new grief. It severs nerves, disconnects reality---there’s mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin. - Christopher Moore She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. - George Eliot He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. - Samuel Johnson Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. - Arthur Golden I have lived with you and I loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days. - Victoria Hanley Ten years, she’s dead and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon. - Mary Karr The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart: The secret anniversaries of the heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Even in darkness, it is possible to create light. - Elie Wiesel The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. - Pablo Picasso Life is a beautiful collage of priceless moments and memories, which when pieced all together create a unique , treasured masterpiece. - Melanie M. Koulouris We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world---the company of those who have known suffering. - Helen Keller Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘It will be happier.’ - Alfred Lord Tennyson Nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting somebody in it. - Author Unknown You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. - Neil Gaiman Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing. - Neale Donald Walsch During a panic attack, I remember that today is just today, and that is all that it is. I take a deep breath in, and I realize that in this moment I am fine and everything is OK. - Max Greenfield But I don’t want to go among mad people, ‘Alice remarked.’ ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat. ‘We’re all mad here.’ - Lewis Carroll Guilt isn’t always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not. - Maureen Johnson 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. - Rabbi Earl Grollman When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure. - Author Unknown The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word ‘”grace.’” - Max Lucado For some moments in life there are no words. - David Seltzer Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. - Von Goethe One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. - Andre Glde To embrace one’s brokenness, whatever it looks like, whatever has caused it, carries within it the possibility that one might come to embrace one’s healing. - Robert Benson I’ve developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time. - Charlie Brown (Charles M. Schulz) Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a little voice at the end of the day that says, ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’” - Mary Anne Radmacher When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. - Pauline R. Kezer Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards. - J.K. Rowling