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Heres a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you l

Heres a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You cant anticipate how youll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right. – Mary Schmich

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A line from one of my 1997 columns – Do one thing every day that scares you – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I dont believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. – Mary Schmich

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Fear
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You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two peoples maps will be the same. – Mary Schmich

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I couldnt have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mothers death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. – Mary Schmich

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Somehow, knowing that Alzheimers is coming mocks all ones aspirations – to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for ones accomplishments and hard work – in a way that old familiar death does not. – Jane Smiley

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I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. – Alfred Nobel

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Millions long for immortality who dont know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. – Susan Ertz

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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. – Umberto Eco

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. – Jean de La Fontaine

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