Grief Acceptance Quotes

I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

It took me a little while to get sorrow under the belt enough to understand country music's lyrics and strengths.

I have learned that grief is a vital part of my heart and accept it as a gift that exists alongside joy.

One thing I've heard that makes sense to me about grief is that there's this conception that it's a thing that you process, and then you're done processing it. But really it's not a thing that has an end, it's just what life is like now. You are living with this now, probably forever.

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.

But the main thing is to give people permission to feel it and to put grief at the heart of what Extinction Rebellion's about.

I am commodifying my grief, to put it really bluntly. I accept it. And I try not to think about it.

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.