Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. It is a reaction to change: life-altering change. Those who grieve are not weak; they are strong people with an overabundance of sensitivity and humanity in facing an overwhelming situation.

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"Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Awareness

"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Awareness

"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

Awareness

"Beautiful people do not just happen."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Compassion

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"The youth of this generation have a greater capacity for obedience than any previous generation."

- Elder David A. Bednar

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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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"The pain you feel today will show itself as strength tomorrow."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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"Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t."

- Henry Rollins

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