David Kessler Quotes

Dahulu, saya menggenggam erat kehidupan dalam kepalan tangan, tetapi sekarang saya sadar bahwa saya juga bisa memegangnya dengan tangan terbuka.

Healing doesn't mean the loss didn't happen. It means that it no longer controls us.

No matter how long you were together, it's not enough time, but the love you shared is not gone. It lives within you, as a part of you. The experience of love that you had can never be destroyed or changed by a new love. That love will exist forever in its own time, in its own way, in your heart. But more love can be available to you if you desire. Your heart can have many loves in its lifetime. A new love can grow out of the same soil without diminishing a past love. You still have a life. It was one you didn't prepare for and you didn't want. But this road is still worth traveling. Your story is still in the making, waiting for you to find it.

We live in a fix-it society with the technology to repair many broken things at our fingertips. We forget that we've all been deliberately designed to "end" one day. When that ending happens, there's nothing to fix. . . This is not giving up, or giving in. It's acceptance.

Pain, death, and loss never feel good, but they're unavoidable in our lifetime. Yet the reality is posttraumatic growth happens more than posttraumatic stress.

You have to cry your own tears because no one can do it for you.

Whatever thoughts you water are the thoughts that will grow.

wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. Lose your child and you're… nothing. — Tennessee Williams

. . . even twins are not here to go on each other's journeys. We have an individualized flight plan.

Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen

Life gives us pain. Our job is to experience it when it gets handed to us. Avoidance of loss has a cost.

Ya, saya memiliki hidup yang baik, tetapi apakah saya benar-benar meluangkan waktu untuk hidup?

. . . even twins are not here to go on each other's journeys.

watch our loved ones go peacefully into the sunset. We need to ask ourselves what we can do to make the last chapter of life meaningful.

After all my years working with the dying and the grieving, I have found that in this lifetime, the ultimate meaning we find is in everyone we have loved. Your loved one's story is over. For unknown reasons, their time on earth has drawn to a close, but yours continues. I can only invite you to be curious about the rest of the story of your life.