"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Grief Quotes #Healing Quotes #Grieving Quotes

“All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness.Â Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality.Â That is a mistake.”
“I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.”
“We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.”
“Who cares how you get caught? If you're cheating, if you're doing wrong, it doesn't matter what you're doing -- it's wrong.”
“To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.”

Source : James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”
“I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.”
“If someone comes into your house and does fked-up things to your kids and your wife, you're going to be capable of things you never imagined. Because it's in there. It might be lying dormant, but it's there.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“If someone asks me a question it is very difficult not to answer honestly”

Source : "People thought I was a freak. I kind of liked that" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.

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