Loss, not to mourn

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From a headstone in Ireland

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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.
Kahlil Gibran

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Love here on earth
Love beyond the grave
There are no roads
My love for you can't pave.
T. Sachs

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He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A human life is a story told by God.
Hans Christian Andersen

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To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
Thomas Campbell

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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa


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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
Rossiter Worthington Raymond

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

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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?
Benjamin Franklin, 22 February 1756







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