I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the occasion; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
-Pam Houston
This is one of my long-time favorite quotes and I wrote about it here: What if my sensitivity is the road home?
So true and hard to accept as well.