Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that the deceased continue to exist in the memories and love of those who knew them.
Caroline Kennedy's quote reflects the idea that while physical death marks an end to life, the love and memories shared with those who have passed away ensure that they continue to exist in a meaningful way within the hearts and minds of their loved ones. It suggests that love has the power to transcend mortality, allowing the deceased to 'live on' through the stories, feelings, and legacies they leave behind.
In practice
In a eulogy, to comfort family and friends after a loss.
Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president - not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.
When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she had such a strong sense of self and such a commitment to the future and such a strong creative sense that she could build new worlds for herself and for us out of the total devastation in her life.
If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.
I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.
I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.
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