Thomas Attig Quotes

#1. The heart of grief, its most difficult challenge, is not "letting go" of those who have died but instead making the transition from loving in presence to loving in separation.

Thomas Attig

#2. The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#3. Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Don't stick that on me until we know for a fact that you have the same power Acheron does to keep cooties off that stuff

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. I remember the thrill that was mine when, in one of my first meetings, I led my first soul to Christ in America. And he was one of my own countrymen.

Mitsuo Fuchida

#6. Retreat"
"I can't explain why I did these things, except to say that I carry a little imp inside me whose ambrosia is my brother's wrath.

Wells Tower

#7. I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

Linda Evans

#8. My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

Peter Higgs

#9. Grieving is a matter of relearning how to be in the world.

Thomas Attig

#10. A twerp was defined as a guy who put his set of false teeth up his rear end and bit the buttons off the backseats of taxicabs.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. She's giving me that duh, really? look that my little sister gives me. Women must be born with that special talent.

Georgia Cates

#12. Touch us gently, Time!
Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently,-as we sometimes glide
Through a quiet dream!

Bryan Procter

#13. Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways.

Thomas Attig