Journey of Hearts

Quotes on the common experience of loss
The following quotes are a collection of classical quotes, some of these quotes are centuries old, yet the words still ring true in explaining the common experience of loss. For me, reading words that were written centuries ago capturing the essence of the emotions that I have felt, reinforces the knowledge that I am not alone in my grief. Others have felt these emotions, lived through them and survived.

These quotes are arranged to take you from loss, through transition, to healing and understanding a higher purpose, to provide a transitional healing in the reading.
These collected quotes, edited together in a healing sequence can more elloquently convey the underlying meaning in Transitional Medicine, the driving force behind Journey of Hearts.

From Loss...

To understand any living thing, you must creep within
and feel the beating of its heart.
W. Macneile Dixon


It is only with the heart that one can see rightly:
What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

God will only mend a broken heart
when He is given all the pieces.
Anonymous


When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne,
let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted
into which our grief has given us entrance, and inevitably,
we will feel about us,
their arms and their understanding
 

Helen Keller


If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap,
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own
and depart.

Socrates
Tears are the safety valve of the heartwhen too much pressure is laid on.
 
Albert Smith
In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
I will open my heart in trust that,
in ways I do not now understand,
my loved one will continue to be present in my life.
Martha Whitmore Hickman
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no conincidences.
All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away--
but not that
of having had one.
Seneca
There is in every heart a spark of heavenly fire
which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity,
but which kindles up and beams
and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving
The Divine Alchemist can miraculously change a sorrowing heart of lead
into a golden mellowness that sings praises through tears.
S.L. McMillen
  The most minute transformation is like a pebble dropped into a still lake.
The ripples spread out endlessly.
Emmanuel
  In the depth of winter,
I finally realized that deep within me there lay
an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
 
 

There is a light in this world,
a healing spirit
more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
We sometime lose sight of this force
when there is suffering, and too much pain.
Then suddenly,
the spirit will emerge
through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call
and answer in extraordinary ways.
Mother Teresa


Great thoughts come from the heart.

Marquis de Vauvenargues

 ...Joy runs deeper than despair.
Corrie ten Boom

Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart---for joy.
Edwin Markham

In the sharing of our losses, our hearts grow stronger.
 
Kirsti A. Dyer, MD, MS

Joy is a net of love by which your can catch souls...
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
 
Mother Teresa


When we are mindful,

deeply in touch with the present moment,
Our understanding of what is going on deepens,
and we begin to be filled with
acceptance, joy, peace and love.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Without love and kindness
life is cold, selfish and uninteresting
and leads to distaste for everything.
With kindness,
the difficult becomes easy,
the obscure clear;
life assumes a charm and it's miseries are softened.
If we knew the power of kindness.
we should transform the world into a paradise.

Charles Wagner

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.
Oscar Arias


You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself, that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

 
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts,
Then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa
 

Love is the Answer ...
John Lennon, Mind Games
  The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
Hellen Keller
The Lord does not care so much for the importance of our works
as for the love with which they are done.
Teresa of Avila
What does love look like?
It has the hands to help others.
It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy.
It has eyes to see misery and want.
It was the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men.
That is what love looks like.
Augustine


I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age 
is the disease of people feeling unloved. 
I know that I can give love for a minute, 
for half and hour, for a day, for a month,  but I can give. 
I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is the one ingredient of which our world never tires
and of which there is never an abundance.
It is needed in the marketplace and in the mansions.
It is needed in the ghettos and in the governments.
It is needed in homes, in hospitals, and in individual hearts.
The world will never outgrow its need for love.
C. Neil Strait
Love is Indestructible.
It's Holy Flame Forever burneth;
From Heaven it came, to Heaven Returneth.
Robert Southey
  We cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
 
Mother Teresa
Nothing is impossible, to the willing heart.

Thomas Heywood
 

Extraordinary things are accomplished by a healing heart.  

 
Kirsti A. Dyer, MD, MS