We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told him that in English we sometimes say, 'I've been there.' This was unclear to him at first- I've been where? But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific loacation, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.' So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked.' Sometimes people live there for years, ' I said. . Elizabeth Gilbert
Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.
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Margaret Atwood
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom
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Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength.
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Ziad K. Abdelnour
Past tears are present strength.
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George MacDonald
That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.
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Stephanie Kuehn
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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.
