[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...
I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.
Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
I miss that feeling of connection.Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.
I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.