Quotes

Celebrating the life of a loved one who has passed away can be a beautiful way to honor their memory and keep their spirit alive. Here are 99 quotes to help you celebrate their life:

1. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
2. “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear.” – Anonymous
3. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
4. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
5. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
6. “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
7. “If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.” – Anonymous
8. “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller
9. “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” – Haruki Murakami
10. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
11. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
12. “Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.” – Unknown
13. “The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.” – Anonymous
14. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
15. “The dead have never left us, we have left them.” – Unknown
16. “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” – Cicero
17. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” – Winnie The Pooh
18. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
19. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Irish Proverb
20. “I have no idea what to say to you, but I’m going to say something profound anyway.” – Unknown
21. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
22. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
23. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
24. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
25. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
26. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
27. “The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
28. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
29. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
30. “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan
31. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” – Rumi
32. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
33. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
34. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
35. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
36. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
37. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
38. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
39. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
40. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
41. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
42. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
43. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
44. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
45. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
46. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
47. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
48. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
49. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
50. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
51. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
52. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
53. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
55. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
56. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
57. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
58. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
59. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
60. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
61. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
62. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
63. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
64. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
65. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
66. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
67. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
68. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
69. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions