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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.”

“Dreams are more powerful than facts.”

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

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”

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

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.”

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

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

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.”

“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness”

“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”

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

“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”