Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.
Another misconception is that if we truly loved someone, we will never finish with our grief, as if continued sorrow is a testimonial to our love. But true love does not need grief to support its truth. Love can last in a healthy and meaningful way, once our grief is dispelled. We can honor our dead more by the quality of our continued living than by our constantly remembering the past.
Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite.
Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.
Whether we experience it or not, grief accompanies all the major changes in our lives. When we realize that we have grieved before and recovered, we see that we may recover this time as well. It is more natural to recover than to halt in the tracks of grief forever. Our expectations, willingness and beliefs are all essential to our recovery from grief. It is right to expect to recover, no matter how great the loss. Recovery is the normal way.
Though we may not always be able to avoid pain, we can choose how much we suffer.
Many children struggle in schools. . . because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family
What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister]. . . to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives.