Awareness Quotes

"For those who have lost a loved one, the recurrence of sadness is not a step backward; it is the nature of grief."

- Margaret Robinson Rutherford, Ph.D.

"The bottom line is, there is no time-line or limit on grieving, and in allowing that natural process and release to occur, allows us to gently connect to what is important to us."

- Clare Sillence

"Grief is not a tidy, orderly process, and there is no right way to grieve. Every person—and every family—does it differently. This can cause emotions to collide and overlap, especially during the holiday season when the emphasis is on rebirth and renewal."

- Anthony Komaroff, M.D.

"Grief is a complicated, nuanced emotional experience that fluctuates, ebbs, and flows. The more nuance we can infuse into our collective understanding of grief by naming its component parts, the better we can honor our own experience and support loved ones going through it."

- Sarah Epstein, LMFT

"Of the complex jumble of emotions that may follow the death of a pet, four stand out as being particularly difficult to acknowledge or understand, and therefore to work through: anger, guilt, denial and depression. A pet owner who "sticks" at one of these reactions faces a major obstacle in the grief swamp. If you find yourself dwelling on one of these emotions, or spending an inordinate amount of time "denying" the emotion, it is important to work on a more realistic understanding of the situation. Otherwise, your feelings may distort your entire perspective on the loss of your pet and your role in its death, and seriously hinder your recovery."

- Moira Anderson Allen, M.Ed.

"Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe their husband is about to return and need his shoes."

- Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

"Grief does not change you, (…) It reveals you."

- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe — no way to see what’s inside and no guarantee that the effort will be worth the trouble."

- Jeanette Winterson

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness: that is life."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence."

- Dr. Leonard McCoy

"Insufficient facts always invite danger."

- Spock

"Even the most comfortable prison is still a prison."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"When children learn to devalue others, they can devalue anyone - including their parents."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Grief has its own time frame. It has its own itinerary with you. It has its own power over you, and it will come when it comes."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"When you change the way you see the world, the world you see will change"

- chrrmin

"Realistically, at least fifty percent of your prospects will not be a good fit for your offering."

- Marc Wayshak

"The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about."

- Seth Godin

"People don’t buy features, they buy benefits. Features answer the question what is it? Benefits answer the question what’s in it for me?"

- Tom Abbott

"There are so many things you can learn about. But you’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut."

- Dr. Seuss

"Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there."

- Yogi Berra

"You're checking them out too!"

- Westsidepipeway

"Don’t assume it’s about your sales process, it’s about their buying process."

- Tom Abbott

"watch your back"

- BlondieWrites

"When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?"

- Deion Sanders

"Wait, you got engaged to someone you just met that day?"

- Kristoff

"Fear is what can't be trusted."

- Elsa

"Magic is very alluring. Without you, she may lose herself to it."

- Pabbie to Anna, about Elsa

"The dewy night unrolls a heaven thickly jeweled with sparkling stars."

- Virgil

"I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees."

- Jane Goodall

"Each sea turtle has a story that speaks volumes about our ocean's history and future"

- Unknown