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

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

“Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.”

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

“From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.”

“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”

“Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.”

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

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

“When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there, I did not die.”

“Death cannot kill what never dies.”

“Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.”

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

“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.”