We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

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.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.