Inspiration

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."

-Ed Cunningham

"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness."

-Robert Oxton Bolt
English author, "Man for All Seasons"

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bond than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

-Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine(1790-1869)

"It isn't for the moment that you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long up hill battle to faith, sanity, and security."

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(who lost her first born son in a kidnapping and murder in the early 20th century.)

"Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly--hurt, bitterness, grief, and most of all, fear."

-Joan Rivers

"Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it.

-Christine M. Huppert

	"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared!" -Eddie Rickenbacker
"I've learned- that no matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief" -Author Unknown
	"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 curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares." - Henri Nouwen
"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." -Barbara J. Winter

	Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief" - Swedish Proverb
"A sister is a gift from God, sent from above to make life worthwhile here below" -Author Unknown