I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
King: Alfred the Great ( 849-901)


One sweetly solemn though comes to me over and over, I am nearer to home today than I have ever been before.
Poetess: Phoebe Care ( 1824-1871)


A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Chief of the Blackfoot: Ispwo Mukika Crowfoot (1783-1850)


Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
King of Israel: David (1015 B.C.)


Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.
French Diplomat: John Baptiste Dubois (1670-1742)


Oh my, it's very beautiful over there.
Inventor: Thomas Edison (1847-1931)


Wonderful, wonderful this death.
British Artist: William Etty (1787-1849)


Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is now at hand and happy shall they who persevere in the good they have begun. I hasten to go to our Lord, to whose grace I recommend you.
Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)


Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Theatrical Producer: Charles Frohman (d. 1915)


Cheer up, children, I am all right.
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)


Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.
You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


The journey is the reward.
-Tao Saying


Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.
-Emily Dickenson






Nothing is so strong as gentleness
and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
-Ralph W. Sockman






Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself,
the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.
-Ann Landers


Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
- Pilpay a Brahmin gymnosophist


The hope of the righteous shall be gladness.
Proverbs 10:28


The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller


God shall wipe all tears from their eyes;
and there shall be no more death, nor crying,
nether shall there be any more pain:
for the former things are passed away.
-Revelation 21:4


Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.
- Homer, Greek Author


I think only through suffering all our wonderful
human qualities come out in us.
Unless and until you suffer,
how will you understand other's suffering?
-Sree Chakravarti


That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Author


"Along the Road"
I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chattered all the way.
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne'er a word said she;
But oh, the things
I learned from her
When Sorrow
walked with me!
-Robert Browning, Poet


They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.
-Psalm 126:6


The Lord God will wipe all tears from all their faces.
-Isaiah 25:8


Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
-Matthew 5:4


Honest listening is one of the best medicines
we can offer the dying and the bereaved.
-Jean Cameron (1982)

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