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“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

“Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.”

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

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

“Dreams are more powerful than facts.”

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”

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

“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.”

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

“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.”

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

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”

“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.”

“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.”

“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.”

“Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!”

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

“Death cannot kill what never dies.”

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

“There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.”

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.”