Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossEven though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossYou have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose of existence on this planet Earth. You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossShould you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross