Gulda

“It is well known that many well-intentioned people enjoy playing the psychologist. But they can cause unintentional harm, sometimes even making the person who is grieving feel apologetic, defensive, or defective. With inappropriate tactics, those unwise people often try to create the false impression that everything is really fine and that time is the only thing necessary for healing. This kind of misguided advice can cause the suppression of normal grief responses. And it will harm the slow process that must always be painfully worked through before resolution can be achieved. Despite their good hearts, they are untrained and unaware of potential problems they may cause.”
― Wallace Sife, The Loss of a Pet: A Guide to Coping with the Grieving Process When a Pet Dies

“That old adage about time being the healer can be very misleading. Time only dulls the sharp edge of new pain and then gives us a better opportunity to heal ourselves of the worst of it. But some of the ache remains with us forever. Yes, time does help with that transition. But it is not a cure; there is none for this.”
― Wallace Sife, The Loss of a Pet: A Guide to Coping with the Grieving Process When a Pet Dies

“Those who have abandoned God cling that much more firmly to the faith in morality.”
― Fredrich Nietzsche

“Acknowledging, as a fact, the equal rights of all its members to the treasures accumulated in the past, it no longer recognizes a division between exploited and exploiters, governed and governors, dominated and dominators, and it seeks to establish a certain harmonious compatibility in its midst-not by subjecting all its members to an -authority that is fictitiously supposed to represent society, not by trying to establish uniformity, but by urging all men to develop free initiative, free action, free association.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal