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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.