{"quotes":[{"text":"This is me being sad.Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.","author":"Michael Rosen","tags":["death","remembering-loved-ones","sad","son"],"id":36368,"author_id":"Michael+Rosen"},{"text":"Heaven left a hole in your heart. But it’s up to you to choose if that hole will be filled with pain, anger, and the eternal darkness of loss . . .\tOr if you will choose to fill it with light and love and have that hole shine out of you like a spotlight into your life, keeping their memory alive . . .{It’s up to you.}.","author":"Tessa Shaffer","tags":["anger","courage","grief-and-loss","grief-inspirational","grieving-loss","heaven","heaven-has-no-regrets","heaven","inspirational-life","inspirational-love","inspirational","loss","memorial","memory-loss","no-regrets","pain","remembering-loved-ones"],"id":36920,"author_id":"Tessa+Shaffer"},{"text":"But I suppose it's part of being old to feel that way, half in one world and half in the other, all of it mixed together in my mind. No one's left who even knows my name. Folks call me Auntie, on account of I never could have children of my own, and I guess that suits me fine. Sometime it's like I've got so many people inside of me I'm never alone at all. And when I go, I'll be taking them with me.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["aging","remembering-loved-ones"],"id":123747,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"},{"text":"My dad’s life was magnificent, but only if I let myself see and remember more than his years of decline.","author":"Lisa J. Shultz","tags":["dad","father","fathers-and-daughters","remembering","remembering-loved-ones"],"id":128323,"author_id":"Lisa+J.+Shultz"},{"text":". . .Though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their nameswritten across the sky as ogham threads are tracedbetween the stars.","author":"John Daniel Thieme","tags":["forgetting","love","lovers","past","remembering","remembering-loved-ones","remembering-the-past","stars","time"],"id":150488,"author_id":"John+Daniel+Thieme"},{"text":"I release ribbons of gratitude to flow back upon the path I have walked as it stretches out behind me, so they brush past everyone whose path crossed my own. May they feel the brief kiss of remembrance within their hearts, there and then gone again, passing like a spring breeze, so that they suddenly know the things they have done for others, in so many ways big and small, seen and unseen alike, somewhere are known and treasured.","author":"Cristen Rodgers","tags":["gratitude","memories","remembering-loved-ones","remembering-the-past","remembrance","spiritual","thankfulness"],"id":197992,"author_id":"Cristen+Rodgers"},{"text":"Oft in the stilly night,Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,Fond memory brings the lightOf other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years,The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shown Now dimmed and gone,The cheerful hearts now broken.(from When the Splendor Falls by Laurie McBain).","author":"Thomas Moore","tags":["memories","reflection-on-happier-times","remembering-loved-ones"],"id":207437,"author_id":"Thomas+Moore"},{"text":"Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope.","author":"Michael Paterniti","tags":["death","hope","life","remembering-loved-ones","tragedy"],"id":227531,"author_id":"Michael+Paterniti"},{"text":"No matter how many times you say you'll give up with words, if your heart still says 'love', there's nothing to be done.","author":"Io Sakisaka","tags":["emotional-pain","love","love","moving-on","remembering-loved-ones","romance"],"id":280536,"author_id":"Io+Sakisaka"},{"text":"After you are gone, people may forget most of what you have said and done. But they will remember that you loved them.","author":"Steve Goodier","tags":["legacy","legacy-life-lessons","love","love","loving","loving-others","loving-people","remembering-loved-ones","remembrance"],"id":292730,"author_id":"Steve+Goodier"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}