If you've recently experienced the death of a loved one, I suggest you surround yourself with supportive friends and family members. But when that's not possible, you can fill your mind with the supportive, insightful quotations and affirmations of folks you don't know, and will probably never meet.

Years ago, you'd have to go to the library and check out thick, heavy books like Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Thankfully, today, finding insightful and inspirational quotes is much easier. All you have to do is to search online using either "grief quotes" or "grief affirmations" and you'll be rewarded with dozens of web sites and pages to sort through. It's like panning for gold; you end up sifting through thousands of words just to find the ones which work for you in the moment.

Human beings are social creatures; when major events happen in our lives we naturally turn to others for support. Sometimes the people around you aren't the best ones to deal with your grief; it's easy for them to grow weary and impatient with your on-going bereavement. Even when those closest to you are willing to sit with you in your sorrow; when they are away from your side, who can you turn to? That's when quotations and affirmations can make a real difference. A quotation can validate what we already know or believe about who we are; or give us a new way of looking at the world and our experience in it.