To My Brother

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.  We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
—    Eleanor Roosevelt
[You must continue to love, even when the loss seems unbearable.  Not because it is easy, but because it is right and you are good;  and because you still have much to offer others.    —    kmab]
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