Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish.
The sea cries with its meaningless voice,
Treating alike its dead and its living
Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.
We have to start treating each other as if we are treating ourselves living another life.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.
We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living
We need to start treating ourselves how we deserve to be treated, even if you feel that no one else does. Prove to the world you are worth something by treating yourself with the utmost respect and hope that other people will follow your example. And even if they don't, at least one person in the world is treating you well: You.
Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living.
The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life. Like my dad, who's not here, but he's here.That's why there's the Day of the Dead. There's such a connection with the dead.
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.