#memorial

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them. ↗

— Paracelsus

#artistic #artists #been #desired #dreams

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going. ↗

— Robert Reich

#about #america #burden #cheap #fair

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism. ↗

— Bob Riley

#believed #i #long #patriotism #pinnacle

Mi nieto corría delante con los pies para los lados y moviendo los brazos como un pato. Nos acercamos al arroyo, tumultuoso en invierno, donde habíamos esparcido tus cenizas. Lo reconoció al punto. -Paula estaba enferma ayer-dijo; para él todo pasado era ayer. -Sí. Se murió. -¿Quién la mató? -No es como en la televisión, Alejandro, a veces la gente se enferma y se muere, así no más. -Adónde van los muertos? -No sé exactamente. -Ella se fue por allí-dijo señalando el arroyo. -Sus cenizas se fueron en el agua, pero su espíritu vive en este bosque.¿No te parece lindo? -No. Sería mejor que viviera con nosotros-decidió. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#death

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#center #doing #enough #felt #getting

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#farewell #left #memorial #party #service

We do this thing. We open our hearts to the world around us. And the more we do that, the more we allow ourselves to love, the more we are bound to find ourselves one day - like Dave, and Morley, and Sam, and Stephanie - standing in the kitchen of our live, surrounded by the ones we love, and feeling empty, and alone, and sad, and lost for words, because one of our loved ones, who should be there, is missing. Mother or father, brother or sister, wife or husband, or a dog or cat. It doesn't really matter. After a while, each death feels like all the deaths, and you stand there like eveyone else has stood there before you, while the big wind of sadness blows around and through you. "He was a great dog," said Dave. "Yes," said Morley. "He was a great dog. ↗

— Stuart McLean

#death

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#battles #character #country #fallen #fought

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#least #let us #live #lived #long

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. ↗

— Maya Lin

#because #building #business #i #into