Hurt

One of the hardest things you will ever have to do, my dear, is to grieve the loss of a person who is still alive.
- Unknown

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
- - Maya Angelou

What wound did ever heal but by degrees? 

- - Shakespeare Othello

Life isn’t always ideal or romantic. It’s a series of triumphs and disappointments, and that’s okay.  The best we can do is open our hearts and learn to appreciate and forgive.  
- - Turning Point,” by Adrian Grenier (1976 - ) Reader’s Digest, June 2007.  Actor, HBO’s “Entourage.”

Grief is an ocean.
Abbreviated from others' quotes likening grief and its process to oceans and waves.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as like lasts.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.  

- Rachel Carson