Pema Chodron - Healing comes from letting there be room for all of “this” to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Marshall McLuhan - “There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”

Debasish Mridha - Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.

Joseph Addison - Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

John Grant - I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.

N. K. Jemisin - Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

William Blake - Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

William Faulkner - Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

Earl Grollman - 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.

Samuel Johnson - While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca - The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Deep Roy - Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.

A. A. Milne - If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.

Shakespeare, Sonnet I - My grief lies onward and my joy behind.

VICTOR HUGO - Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could

Anna Freud - I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Henri Nouwen - The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…