"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)

"To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means being completely one with what you are experiencing and not holding it at arm’s length.”
(Philip Kapleau)

“There is no path so dark, nor road so steep, nor hill so slippery that other people have not been there before me and survived. May my dark times teach me to help the people I love on similar journeys.”
(Maggie Bedrosian)

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
(Anatole France)

"No heaven will ever Heaven be, unless my cats are there to welcome me."
(Anonymous)