“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”

I highlight the first part because I think death can feel like our enemy – it has hurt us, it has caused us our bereavement. These words are emotional for me, because I think until we can forgive our loved one being taken away we struggle to move on with our lives. I think I will print this out and put it on the fridge to remind me that forgiveness is such an important part of grief.

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“Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” ~ Victor Hugo

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” ~ E.E.   Cummings

Laughter enables the positive chemicals in our body to circulate, it really is the best medicine. Laughter never means that we are forgetting our lost loved ones, it does not mean we are not grieving…it means that we are human.

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 ”Courage does not always roar,

Sometimes courage is the quiet voice

At the end of the day

Saying “I will try again tomorrow”   

I think those 4 lines sum up the courage we need each day as we fight our grief, fight our loss, fight that desire to give up and walk away. But lets all remember to …try again tomorrow.

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“I felt like a tree split by lightening – roots exposed”

Wow, I have always struggled to explain how I felt and this quote manages to convey the feelings brilliantly. I expresses the power, the devastation the insecurity.

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