Finding Inspiration in Literature

“People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.” —The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

“This, I realize, is why we have ceremonies like funerals—not for the departed but for the living, to remind one another that even in grief, we don’t have to be alone.” — Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer

“It is truly a great cosmic paradox that one of the best teachers in all of life turns out to be death....The wise person realizes that death is constantly giving them something. Death is giving meaning to your life….If you are living every experience fully, then death doesn’t take anything from you. There’s nothing to take because you’re already fulfilled. That’s why the wise being is always ready to die.”— The Untethered Soul by Michael Alan Singer