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“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

“Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.”

“Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.”

“A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”

“With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!”

“Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.”

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”

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

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.”

“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

“Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.”

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.”

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

“He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.”

“And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.”

“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.”

“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”

“Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.”

“It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?”

“Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”

“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.”

“We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

“Death cannot kill what never dies.”

“A man is not completely born until he is dead.”

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”

“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.”

“When you are sorrowful, look again.”

“... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature. The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion - ECSTASY - the ecstasy of Love - the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.”