83 quotes found
“Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.”
“Be the good & seek the good. Faith fights anxieties go after your faith with body, mind & soul.”
“He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.”
“Dostoyevsky's indignation at Afanasy Fet's innocent lyrics, "Whispers, timid breath, the nightingales trilled," is well known. This is simply disgraceful, wrote Dostoyevsky indignantly, and he spec...”
“Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didnt keep a hard eye on hers...”
“whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats offthen, ...”
“Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.”
“I am not "cured"--I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.”
“A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.”
“Even if the world was falling apart, that was no reason to let his appearance and good habits fall apart with it.”
“All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.”
“She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of...”
“The Bad-Moon Girls appear on days when Dad doesn't know what he is thinking, or even if he is thinking. Those days can weigh less than air or more than an ocean. He has blank thoughts without feeli...”
“The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.”
“Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.”
“The dirty secret she’d learned about grief was that nobody wanted to hear about your loss a week after the funeral. People you’d once considered friends would turn their heads in church or cross to...”
“Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.”
“Close your eyes, real tight, and then count to three hundred. That’s all you have to do. You just count to three hundred, and when you open your eyes, five minutes will have passed. And even if it ...”
“My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.”
“The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I will strive to find a way to turn pity into admiration, for what use is it to send pi...”
