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Sometimes, the wise and lyrical words of others who have been here before, can help you put your own thoughts and feelings into perspective.

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“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”

– Eskimo proverb

“If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you’ve made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand”

– Author Unknown

“Life has to end. Love doesn’t”

– Mitch Albom

“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on”

– Irving Berlin

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal”

– Irish proverb

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

– Khalil Gibran

“Grief is the price we pay for love”

– Colin Murray Parkes

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard”

– A.A. Milne

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

– Rabindranath Tagore

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others”

– Thucydides

“As is a tale, so is a life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters”

– Seneca

“Lives are like rivers: Eventually they go where they must. Not where we want them to”

– Richard Russo

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years”

– Abraham Lincoln

“An angel in the book of life wrote down my baby’s birth & whispered as she shut the book… too beautiful for earth”

– Patricia Larson

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened”

– Dr. Suess

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

– Thomas Campbell

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

– Terry Pratchett

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”

– George Eliot

“Love doesn’t die, people do. So, when all that’s left of me is love, give me away”

– Merrit Malloy

“In this life we will never truly be apart, for we grew to the same beat of our Mother’s heart.”

 – Daphne Fandrich

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

– John Steinbeck

“When you are born you cry and the world is happy, when you die the world cries and you are happy.”

– from the movie One Last Thing

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

– Leonardo Da Vinci

“There is no foot so small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world”

– Author Unknown

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