39 Quotes by David Kessler

I’ve worked in the medical field for years as a nurse. I try to know the ins and outs of the health-care system, but nothing challenges a person as much as when his or her own family members become ill.

It shouldn’t be too surprising that the person who is actually present as we cross the threshold of life and take our first breath once again appears at the threshold as we take our last breath.

The will to save a life is not the power to stop a death.

Maturity is when you accept the fact that two contradictory ideas can exist together.

Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope.

After all my years working with the dying and the grieving, I have found that in this lifetime, the ultimate meaning we find is in everyone we have loved. Your loved one’s story is over. For unknown reasons, their time on earth has drawn to a close, but yours continues. I can only invite you to be curious about the rest of the story of your life.

Life gives us pain. Our job is to experience it when it gets handed to us. Avoidance of loss has a cost.

If I had my life to live over again, I would find you sooner so that I could love you longer.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? – Rose Kennedy.