Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers Quotes

“It’s alright to cry every day if we feel like it. It is as important as laughing ... We kill ourselves if we stop it.”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline

“it’s the most sensitive and careful caretakers who feel the most guilt.”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline

“Death Is Nothing At All By Henry Scott Howard
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, That, we still are. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effect. Without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same that it ever was. There is absolute unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you for an interval. Somewhere. Very near. Just around the corner. All is well.”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline

“Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep By Mary Elizabeth Frye
Do not stand at my grave and weep.  I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning’s hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circling flight. I am the soft star-shine at night.  Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die. Death Is Nothing At All By Henry Scott Howard
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, That, we still are. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline

“it’s estimated that just lying down and being quiet gives your body about 80% of the rest it gets while sleeping.”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline

“Grief can be a transformational experience … It’s up to each individual whether they’ll choose to let grief destroy them, or whether they’ll do the challenging and difficult work that will ultimately allow it to be transformed into personal growth and expansion.”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline

“One thing that helps me in difficult times is that I long ago decided that the Mystery, that inexplicable source of Love and Life energy, is vastly more complex and intelligent than we can comprehend.  What makes us think that nothing in the universe could be more intelligent and complex than the human brain? When something bad happens, rather than assuming that there’s a creator out there who is either cruel, slacking off, or totally fictional, I tend to assume there’s a lot more going on than meets the eye. I lean toward trusting that all of this probably makes more sense in a complexity beyond our comprehension.”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline

“death—the thing we most fear and fight against all our lives—might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to us. (I suppose, if there were irrefutable proof of this, there could be more suicide and even carelessness about other people’s safety. Maybe that’s why it has to be a mystery.)”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline

“Why give up hope and assume an indifferent universe when you don’t really know for sure? Why not look instead for reasons to believe there’s more going on than meets the eye? Why not choose wonder?”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline

“Don’t ever judge your emotions, they are a way of honoring someone you loved and they are the way to heal. When I was able to gently lean into the pain, it was because I realized the root of my grief was a pure love and therefore the feelings could not be wrong. If the feelings came from love, it made no sense to deny them.”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline

“In our Western culture, we don’t ‘do death’ well in general, and this is especially true after pet loss, which is disenfranchised grief.”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline

“And so one of the hardest times in my life began: me determined to save her in spite of the prognosis, me feeling responsible for the cancer, and then … … me not saving her and feeling like all the sunlight had been packed up and removed from the world.”
― Liz Eastwood, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping wisdom for heart and soul after the loss of a beloved feline