Cruse Bereavement Care - Support, counselling, education, advice and information to bereaved people.
Grief Recovery Online - GROWW is a non profit grief community which includes myriad resources, message boards and secure chat rooms for anyone who has lost (or is losing) a love one to death.
The Child Bereavement Trust - Offers training and support to the professional care giver and provides information and resources for families and professionals.
Idaline Luis - Experience, qualifications and contact details of counsellor specialising in bereavement, based in London.
Ayrshire Sands - Provides support for bereaved parents and their families when their baby dies before, during or soon after birth.
PEAL. (Parents Experiencing Adult Loss) - A confidential bereavement service helping parents and adult siblings grieving the death of a child aged 16 or over. Offer personal support and group meetings. Contact details.
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Grief, Loss and Bereavement "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Grief, Loss and Bereavement
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Grief, Loss and Bereavement We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Grief, Loss and Bereavement
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Marriage is a rest period between romances. You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Grief, Loss and Bereavement The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Grief, Loss and Bereavement
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Grief, Loss and Bereavement Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Grief, Loss and Bereavement
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grief, Loss and Bereavement Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Grief, Loss and Bereavement
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Grief, Loss and Bereavement "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Grief, Loss and Bereavement
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Grief, Loss and Bereavement The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Grief, Loss and Bereavement
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Grief, Loss and Bereavement "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Grief, Loss and Bereavement
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Grief, Loss and Bereavement Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Grief, Loss and Bereavement
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Grief, Loss and Bereavement Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Grief, Loss and Bereavement
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Grief, Loss and Bereavement Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Grief, Loss and Bereavement
