Rita Mae BrownSorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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If you are grieving, do not think that the pain of your loss is somehow less than what you felt when you first lost your loved one. You are not lessening the pain. You are just beginning to feel it in a new way. Grief is not so much about the loss of what has been taken away as it is about the discovery of what it means to live without it. The loss of something can heighten our appreciation for what we have.
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