quote by George S. Patton

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

— George S. Patton

Grateful Mourn quotations

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. . . Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment.

God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another -- God alone.

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.

It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness.

It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning;

for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk

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.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again.

Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

We are all our own graveyards, I believe;

we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches.

If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday.

Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process.

This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation.

Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain.

It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.