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Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
The greatest force in the human body
is the natural drive of the body to heal itself -
but that force in not independent of the belief system.
Everything begins with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
- Norman Cousins
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss.
It is originally an unlearned feeling process.
Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
- Anne Grant
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei 
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Most unhappiness comes from resisting life.
Occasionally, you have such a strong commitment
to changing the world order that it is worth
struggling against the flow of life.
But don't live your life as if each minor happening
were a matter of life and death.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I cannot know the pain you feel.
I cannot share your memories or your loss.
My words of sympathy are beneath measure, yet
know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
Careers and relationships also have their cycles
of birth, growth, and death -
to be followed by rebirth and the renewal of the cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
I have a very low threshold of death.
My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
- the Woody Allen movie Casino Royale
The key is, to not think of death as an end,
but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.
- the movie Love and Death
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because
we don't know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.
It dies of illness and wounds;
it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
- Anais Nin
Fear of the unknown is
the greatest fear of humankind,
and death the greatest unknown.
Acknowledging these doubts and the fears
is a powerful beginning.
It is liberating to say,
"Yes, I don't know, and yes, I am afraid."
Beyond that, the path to happiness
lies in living in the moment -
enjoying what you are doing today.
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death is the final opening to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
Still, things could be a lot worse.
Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't.
- the movie Megamind (2010)
I Cheat Death by Enjoying Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
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