Quote of the Day

ANDERSON COOPER: The strange thing about grief is that it feels so alone.  And yet it is this experience which everybody has gone through or will go through, and yet it still feels so lonely.

ASHLEY JUDD: No one can do it for us.  We do not have to do it alone.

All There Is with Anderson Cooper, "Ashley Judd: Grief, Love and Naomi"

Quote of the Day

I've often thought of loss as a kind of language.  Once learned, it's never forgotten.

-- Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, p. 196

Quote of the Day

I know now that it's never too late to change the relationship you have with someone important in your life: a parent, a child, a lover, a friend.  All it takes is a willingness to be honest and to shed your old skin, to let go of the longstanding assumptions and slights you still cling to.

-- Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, p. 8

Quote of the Day

When we're young we all waste so much time being reserved or embarrassed with our parents, resenting them or wishing they and we were entirely different people.  This changes when we become adults, but we don't often explore new ways of talking and conversing, and we put off discussing complex issues or raising difficult questions.  We think we'll do it one day, in the future, but life gets in the way, and then it's too late.

-- Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, p. 6