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“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Kahlil Gibran

“Four things you can’t recover from: The stone after the throw. The word after it’s said. The occasion after it’s missed. The time after it’s gone.”
Deanna Wadsworth

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not
curing… that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen

“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
C.S. Lewis

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Albert Schweitzer

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
Maya Angelou

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny.”
C.S. Lewis

“We have suffered bereavement after bereavement, but we are going to the land of the immortal where graves do not exist.”
Charles Spurgeon

“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”
Turkish proverb