Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose – you drop into a different kind of serious.

My wife is already in Heaven.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.