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Quote for Celebrating Life and Helping with the Grieving Process

Do you ever wonder what to say?   Or, need a special quote for a card or to show you care?  We have gathered several quotes about celebrating life and helping with grief.  

Celebration of Life Quotes

  • Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Unknown

  • “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

  • “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

  • “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha

  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

  • “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

  • “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

  • “Celebrate your life, you are your own light.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

  • “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson

  • “Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

  • “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany

  • “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein

  • “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn

  • “Life is a celebration. Consider everything that makes you happy as a gift from God and say, ‘Thank you.’” – Francis Lucille

  • “Celebrate life in all its glory – challenge yourself to let the routine sing, and the new dance.” – Maximillian Degenerez

  • Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.” – Sai Baba

  • “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” – Emily Dickinson

  • “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

  • “It’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

  • “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese

  • “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

  • “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius

  • “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

  • “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

  • “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron

  • “Life is too short to be anything but happy.” – Unknown

  • “Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!” – Amanda Bradley

  • “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses

  • “Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.” – Plautus

  • “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” – Eckhart Tolle

  • “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

  • “Celebrate life. To truly live, celebrate each day of life. Let each day be a festival of joy.” – Amit Ray

  • “Celebrate we will, because life is short but sweet for certain.” – Dave Matthews Band

  • “The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.” – Cicero

  • “Your life is a celebration. It’s your time.” – Winnie Mashaba

  • “The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” – Richard Bach

  • “Life is about using the whole box of crayons.” – RuPaul

  • “Life is a celebration of passionate colors.” – Leialoha Cator

  • “Each day provides its own gifts.” – Marcus Aurelius

  • “Celebrate life’s simple pleasures.” – Unknown

  • “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” – Henry David Thoreau

  • “Every day is a celebration of life. It’s time to celebrate living and being alive.” – Unknown

  • “Celebrate life in every way, every day. Let your heart sing and your spirit fly.” – Wayne Dyer

  • “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” – Karl Barth

  • “The way you celebrate life is your business. How you enjoy your journey, is your choice.” – Unknown

  • “A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia

  • “Life itself is a gift. It is your job to find the joy in it.” – Unknown

  • “Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” – Henry Van Dyke

  • “Celebrate the good moments, they’re all we have sometimes.” – Unknown

  • “Live today, cherish yesterday, dream tomorrow.” – Unknown

Quotes for Grief

  • “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II

  • “The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris

  • “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

  • “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” – Anne Roiphe

  • “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  • “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell

  • “Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” – Sarah Dessen

  • “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller

  • “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine

  • “Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.” – Benjamin Disraeli

  • “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.” – Cassandra Clare

  • “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hilary Stanton Zunin

  • “The only cure for grief is action.” – George Henry Lewes

  • “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis

  • “Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot.” – Jamie Anderson

  • “Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Unknown

  • “Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.” – Thomas Moore

  • “Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.” – Sarah Dessen

  • “Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith… It is the price of love.” – Unknown

  • “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” – William Shakespeare

  • “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.” – Terry Pratchett

  • “Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.” – J.K. Rowling

  • “You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” – Nigella Lawson

  • “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” – Keanu Reeves

  • “Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” – Unknown

  • “Grief is the keenest pang bestowed upon the best of mankind, the strongest proof of love, the greatest sacrifice, the fullest tribute, and the richest legacy.” – Unknown

  • “We need to grieve the ones we have lost not only to mourn their absence but to give space for their presence in our lives.” – Unknown

  • “Those we have held in our arms for a little while, we hold in our hearts forever.” – Unknown

  • “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri

  • “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” – John Green

  • “Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief is the blunder of a lifetime.” – Benjamin Disraeli

  • “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving

  • “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown

  • “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi

  • “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • “Grief is the garden of compassion.” – Rumi

  • “Tears are the silent language of grief.” – Voltaire

  • “Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison

  • “Grief never ends… But it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay.” – Unknown

  • “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir

  • “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From an Irish Headstone

  • “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.” – C.S. Lewis

  • “Grief is the price of love. It is a measure of the depth of our devotion.” – Dr. Colin Murray Parkes

  • “Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.” – Thomas Horn

  • “Grief does not diminish; instead, it carves up a space in your heart.” – Unknown

  • “What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, star-dust or sea-foam, flower or winged air.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  • “Grief is the price we pay for love. It is the cost of commitment. And in the end, it is what brings us together and makes us human.” – Unknown

  • “Grief is the wound that never fully heals. It is the scar of love lost, the ache of an empty space.” – Unknown

  • “Grief is the last gift we give to those we love. It is the end of our story with them, and the beginning of a new chapter of life.” – Unknown

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