The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!
"Come to the edge," he said.
They said, "We are afraid,"
"Come to the edge," He said.
They came....
He pushed them
They flew.
Death can not stop true love, it can only delay it for a little while.
Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.
Every man dies, not every man really lives.
"eVeRyBoDy WaNtS tO gO tO hEaVeN bUt
NoBoDy WaNtS 2 dIe"
"Goodbye seems forever
Farewell, the end
But in my hearts a memory
And there you'll always be."
"Grave digger, when you dig my grave, could you make it shallow so that i can feel the rain?"
Dave Matthews Band: Gravedigger
I always knew I would look back on my tears and laugh, but I never thought I would look back at my laughter and cry.
I have been trying to make the best of grief and am just beginning to learn to allow it to make the best of me.
"I've cried a million tears before,
and tried to stop each one.
But the tears keep burning in my eyes,
and I fear they've just begun."
Ich bin nicht tot. Ich wechsle nur die Räume. Ich leb in dir und geh durch deine Träume.
If tears can build a stairway, and memories a lane. I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.
It's like we are awake here and asleep in heaven until we die, then we are asleep here and awake there.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for a while leaving footprints on our hearts, and we are forever changed.
There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read them. But al that is going to matter is that little dash between them.
"To die would be an awfully big adventure." ~Peter Pan
Told you I was sick...
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
A heart of gold stopped beating,
two shining eyes at rest.
God broke our hearts to prove,
He only takes the best.
A heart of gold stopped beating,
two shining eyes at rest.
God broke our hearts to prove,
He only takes the best.
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
Always on my mind; Forever in my heart.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say: "I was always happy." Hopefully, we will be able to say: "I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments."
Because you loved me, I will be with you forever!
Beyond the clouds, behind the rain,There are a thousand rainbows.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for awhile.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there... I do not sleep.
I am the thousand winds that blow...
I am the diamond glints on snow...
I am the sunlight on ripened grain...
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you waken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of gentle birds in circling flight...
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry—
I am not there... I did not die...
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Don't go knocking on death's door-- ring the doorbell and run. He hates that.
Don't let her death take away your life.
Don't regret what has gone. Don't cry what has die. But rise and keep up what has missing and go."
Don't save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
El recuerdo de la felicidad ya no es felicidad,el recuerdo del dolor es todavia dolor
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.
Everybody is born so that they can learn how to live a good life and love others - dogs already know how to do that so they don't have to stay as long
Everything that I love is gone, and I'm tired of hanging on.
Flowers may fade, but fragrant memory lingers
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
For trying to be god and take justice in your hands for something you will never have, you will meet death over your conscious.
Freedom has a price, and it is high. Sometimes a man must give all he can, sometimes a man must die.
God gave the most precious gift to me~ As He did so he whispered so tenderly, "This child I give you is not yours to keep, When I call her Home, please do not weep.
For I will take her by the hand, across my bridge of love, Together we will fly to my Golden Gates above, Where she can play in the sand, as soft as a sigh, The sun will always shine on her, in a summer blue sky, Her playmates will be Angels with gossamer wings, Her own spiritual mother, a sweet lullaby sings, I'll welcome home, this child, so precious in my sight, She'll be safe at last, a child of Gods light.
So do not grieve when the time comes, she's forever in my care, Behind Heavens Doorway, she'll wait for you there ...
Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his brother
Grief takes time.
You won't get over it in a month
or even a year.
In fact, you never get over it.
You blend it into your life,
And make it part of you.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
He was comforted by one of the simpler emotions which some human beings are lucky enough to experience. He knew when he died he would be watched by someone he loved.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
High is the way,
but our eyes are upon the ground.
You are the light and the way.
They'll only read about.
I only pray heaven knows,
when to lift you out.
I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.
I held you in my arms for 9 hours, now I hold you in my heart forever....
I know that your in heaven, and there for me you'll wait.
One sweet day I'll meet you smiling at the gate.
Until that day comes we still are not apart, because
my sweet *Walter*, you are always in my heart!
I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of Him. So now I give to to the Lord.
I started dying the moment I was born.
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
I want you to know, that it doesn't matter where we take this road. Someone's gotta go. And I want you to know, you couldn't have loved me better. But I want you to move on, so I'm already gone.
I worry too much of my health, but I didn't realize that it's all in my mind.
I worry too much of my health, but I didn't realize that it's all in my mind.
I worry too much of my health, but I didn't realize that it's all in my mind.
I'll lend you for a little time, a child of mine, He said.
For you to love while he lives, and mourn when he is dead.
It may be six or seven years, twenty-two or three.
But will you, till I call him back, take care of him for me?
He'll bring his charms to gladden you, and shall his stay be brief,
You'll have his lovely memories as solace for your grief.
I cannot promise he will stay, since all from earth return.
But there are lessons taught down there I want this child to learn.
I've looked the wide world over in my search for teachers true,
And from the throngs that crowd life's lane, I have selected you.
Now will you give him all of your love, nor think the labor vain,
Nor hate ...
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... There is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you.
If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.
If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.
If you should die before me ask if you can bring a friend...
If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
It's sad to lose a good friend, but it's dear to cherish those happy memories.
Just when the caterpillar thought its world was over, it became a butterfly.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Life is not measure by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breaths away.
Life is too short if we think about it. But if you live a good life, people will remember you eternally.
Life is too short if we think about it. But if you live a good life, people will remember you eternally.
Life is too short. We all have to go there anyway. It's just a matter of time.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Live, love, and laugh often, for you never know which moment is going to be your last.
Love is how you stay alive even after you are gone.
May loving memories ease the pain of your heart.
Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.
Mourn not the cacoon, the butterfly has flown.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
No farewell words were spoken, no time to say good-bye. You were gone before I knew it and only God knows why. My heart still aches in sadness and secret tears still flow, what it meant to lose you, no one will ever know.
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
No one wants to die, yet no one can escape death.
OUR LOVED ONES LEAVE THE WORLD, BUT NEVER LEAVE OUR HEARTS!
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky...but openings for our loved ones to shine thru to let us know they are at peace.
Pick a flower, hold your breath and drift away.
Say not their work is done.
No deed of love or kindness ever dies,
But in the life of others multiplies.
Say it is just begun.
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
--Adlai Stevenson, Eulogy of Eleanor Roosevelt, November 7, 1962
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
The pain passes
The beauty remains
The souls of the just are in the hand of God. They are at peace. Their hope is full of immortality. We seem to give them back to you, O God, who gave them to us. Yet as you did not lose them by giving, so do we not lose them by their return. Not as the world gives do you give, O Lover of souls. What you give, you take not away - for what is yours is ours also if we are yours.
And life is eternal and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing, save the limit of our sight.
Lift us up, strong Son of God, that we may see further. Cleanse our eyes that we may see more clearly. Draw us closer to yourself that we may know ourselves to be nearer to our loved ones w...
The words to the playing of "TAPS" for a military funeral....
Day is done,
Gone the sun,
From the lakes,
From the hills,
From the sky.
All is well,
Safely rest,
God is nigh.
There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen.
They who are near me do not know that
you are nearer to me than they are...
those who speak to me do not know that
my heart is full with your unspoken words...
Those who crowd my path do not know
that I am walking alone with you...
They who love me do not know that
their love brings you to my heart.
They whom we love and lost
are no longer where they were before.
They are now wherever we are.
Though you say goodbye to yesterday...may you hold it in your heart forever.
Time will come, people will no longer fight at each other. They are going to unite against the wrath of nature.
P.S
It's my birthday today, but I feel sad for what happened in Samar and Leyte, Philippines because of super typhoon Haiyan that killed thousands of people. It is a nightmare! I hope God will continue to bless all of them.- Alon Calinao Dy
To live in the hearts we leave behind is to not die.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavor rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
What greater honor,
that when a man moves forward,
he leaves behind in each of us,
the best of what he was.
What is there to do when people die--people so dear and rare--but bring them back by remembering.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly.
When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory be comes a treasure.
When Someone You Love Becomes A Memory, The Memory Becomes A Treasure
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
When someone you love becomes a memory,
the memory becomes a treasure.
When the one you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
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.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in a manner so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
You are on our minds forever apart of us even though we're apart you will forever remain in our hearts
You can shed tears that he is gone,
or you can smile because he has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that he'll come back,
or you can open your eyes and see all he's left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see him,
or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember him only that he is gone,
or you can cherish his memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind,
be empty and turn your back.
Or you can do what he'd want:
smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
You leave me much against my will.
your life was a blessing,
your memory a treasure.
You are loved beyond words
and missed beyond measure
“To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die” Thomas Campbell
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