You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can't go on. Y… - Cheryl Strayed

If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease.
We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.

Trust yourself. It’s Sugar’s golden rule. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing began.