Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby. —Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about. —Haruki Murakami More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When our wounds cease to be a source of shame and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers. . . . Our own experience with loneliness, depression, and fear can become a gift. . . . Our own bandaged wounds will allow us to listen to others with our whole beings. —Henri J.M. Nouwen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. —Hillel the Elder More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session. To prolong pain is to remain in a vacated classroom and miss the next lesson. —Yahia Lababidi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more you cut the branches of a tree, the higher and stronger it grows. The more you put the gold in the fire, the purer it becomes. The more you sharpen the steel by grinding, the better it cuts. . . . Therefore I am happy that you have had great tribulations and difficulties. . . . Strange it is that I love you and still I am happy that you have sorrows. —Abdu'l-Bahá More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nights of anguish. Inconsolable sisters, why did I not kneel more to greet you, lose myself more in your loosened hair? —Rainer Maria Rilke More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more loss we feel, the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is. —Frank O'Connor More about this quote Tags: gratitude grief loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't let Krusty's death get you down, boy. People die all the time, just like that. Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow! Well, goodnight. —Homer Simpson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The deaths of others carry us off bit by bit, until there will be nothing left; and this, too, will be, in a way, a mercy. —John Updike More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Part of getting over it is knowing you will never get over it. —Anne Finger More about this quote Tags: moving on healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. —P.D. James More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mold, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email