Regular readers will know that I love quotes, I love quotes that help you think, help inspire you to think differently. When you are going through grief, words can really help in coming to terms with life and the heartache that you are feeling. Francis Maitland Balfour once said
“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”
I highlight the first part because …read more

I think we can often feel guilty about enjoying our lives, guilty about laughing but laughing is an important part of anyone’s life. Take a look at these quotes
“Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” ~ Victor Hugo
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” ~ E.E.   Cummings
Laughter enables the positive chemicals in our body to circulate, it really is the best medicine. Laughter never means that we are forgetting our lost loved ones, it does not mean …read more

I saw this quote when I was shopping in Whole Foods yesterday, it is accredited to Mary Anne Radmacher
 ”Courage does not always roar,
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
At the end of the day
Saying “I will try again tomorrow”   
I think those 4 lines sum up the courage we need each day as we fight our grief, fight our loss, fight that desire to give up and walk away. But lets all remember to …try again tomorrow.

I came across this quote by Mary Jones
“I felt like a tree split by lightening – roots exposed”
Wow, I have always struggled to explain how I felt and this quote manages to convey the feelings brilliantly. I expresses the power, the devastation the insecurity.