Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
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.
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
A human life is a story told by God.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
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.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
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