I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela

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It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn't sneakily turned up the heating. – Fredrik Backman

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It is not length of life, but depth of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II

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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. – Antoine de Saint

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Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you. — Taylor Swift

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Though nothing can bring back the hour, Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind. – William Wordsworth

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