"Blessed are those who mourn…"
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive -- to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are." ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"One often calms one's grief by recounting it." ~Pierre Corneille
"The only cure for grief is action." ~George Henry Lewes
"To not think of dying, is to not think of living." ~Jann Arden
"Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now." ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice." ~Native American Proverb
"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names." ~The Bible
“In the Gospel passage of the Beatitudes, the Lord proclaims: "Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted" (Mt 5: 4). The contradiction that seems to exist between suffering and joy is overcome through the consoling action of the Holy Spirit. In conforming us to the mystery of the crucified and Risen Christ, the Holy Spirit opens us from this moment to the joy that will culminate in our beatific encounter with the Redeemer. In fact, the human being does not only aspire to physical or spiritual well-being, but to a "health" that is expressed in total harmony with God, with self and with humanity. This goal can only be reached through the mystery of the passion, death and Resurrection of Christ.” ~John Paul II |