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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. — Joyce Grenfell
I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with the utter collapse… — Unknown Author
The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever. — Rabindranath Tagore
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. — Rabindranath Tagore
Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs. — Rabindranath Tagore
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. — Rumi
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what? — Steve Forbert
We're living in world, stars and dust Between heaven 'n all that surrounds us We're travellers here, spirits passing through And the love we give,… — Tina Turner
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. — D. H. Lawrence
To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he… — Unknown Author
I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like… — Wynton Marsalis
A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for… — Ming-Dao Deng
In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one… — Vasily Grossman
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal… — Patricia Cornwell
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean… — Albert Camus
I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like… — Carl Hiaasen
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. — Stephen Covey
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended… — Mark Twain
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with… — Steve Buyer
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are… — Henry Ward Beecher
The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find… — Eugene H. Peterson
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part… — Enoch Powell
At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor. — Judith McNaught

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