Earl A Grollman Quotes

For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

Earl A Grollman

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• You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Start
  • Books
  • Really

• I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Me

• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Moral

• We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Authority

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Child
  • Well
  • Vegetables

• It's a sin to be tired.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Tired
  • Sin

• I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.

  

  OMI
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Looking

• On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Two
  • Test

• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Deep

• I have three young kids and a great family. I love hanging out with them more than anything.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Great
  • Family
  • Love

• As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Society
  • Culture

• The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Women
  • Live
  • Way

• The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Today
  • Pretty
  • Idea

• I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Life
  • Courage
  • New Things

• Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Support
  • U.S.

• Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.

  

  Karl Marx

• The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.

  

  Lewis Carroll

• Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

  

  Frank Luntz
  • Life

• I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.

  

  Myles Richard Bass Alter Bridge
  • Style
  • Choices
  • Listening

• I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose the truth in ways that are uncomfortable and that, yes, require courage. What I caution against is using hateful rhetoric to inspire action, and I see a lot of that today. We strengthen the underlying field of hatred, dehumanization, and conquest. It certainly doesn't engage what allows people to do courageous things and to commit deeply, which is the experience of beauty, love, grief.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Grief

• For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

  

  Earl A Grollman
  • Grief
  • Grieving
  • Survivor