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“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.” ― Katharine Weber

“You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” — Nigella Lawson

“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.” ― Jodi Picoult

"A feeling of pleasure or solace can be so hard to find when you are in the depths of your grief. Sometimes it's the little things that help get you through the day. You may think your comforts sound ridiculous to others, but there is nothing ridiculous about finding one little thing to help you feel good in the midst of pain and sorrow!" -Elizabeth Berrien, Creative Grieving: A Hip Chick's Path from Loss to Hope

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." -Washington Irving

"The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief—but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love." -Hilary Stanton Zunin

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“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest.”
~Jamie Anderson

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Missing someone is sadness wrapped in the blessing of having known them. ~ unknown

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Nurture yourself like you would anybody else going through something this hard. – Melvina Young

"You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be."
Nigella Lawson

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“You don’t move on after loss, but you must move with. You must shake hands with grief, welcome her in, for she lives with you now. Pull her a chair at the table and offer her comfort. She is not the monster you first thought her to be. She is love. And she will walk with you now, stay with you now, peacefully. If you let her. And on the days when your anger is high, remember why she came, remember who she represents. Remember. Grief came to you my friend because love came first. Love came first.”

-Donna Ashworth

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” - Jan Glidewell

“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” - Vicki Harrison.

“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber.

“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, We Bereaved

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” —The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis by C.S. Lewis

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others.” —Pericles

Loving you changed my life. It should come as no surprise that losing you has done the same.” —Chloë Frayne

“Grief can destroy you — or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn’t allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it.”

Dean Koontz

“Never.
We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.”

Paulo Coelho

May you and your family have a fantastic Father's day.
Thanks, Dads, for all you do!

“I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.” -Adrienne C. Moore

“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” -Hilary Stanton Zunin