Sarah Dessen - Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

Debasish Mridha - Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.

Sarah Dessen - Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Mitski - You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you're okay with who you are or where you came from.

Tyler Perry - It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Denis Diderot - Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

John Green - You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

Henri Nouwen - The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing…not healing, not curing…

Kristin Armstrong - I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

Kavita Ramdas - We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can

Kimberly Elise - I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.

Earl Grollman - Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

Samuel Johnson - While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Indra Nooyi - Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

William Faulkner - Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca - The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Sarah McCane - Never play the princess when you can be the queen: rule the kingdom, swing a scepter, wear a crown of gold.