General George S. Patton:

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

While it came from Gen. Patton, the remark goes well beyond fighting and war to just the general notions of life and death. When people die, all too often those they left behind are stuck on mourning the loss instead of being thankful the person ever lived in the first place. We are so focused on avoiding death, I think sometimes we forget to live. You’ve only so much time and energy in a day, it’s up to you how you want to spend it: dealing with death or dealing with life. I like dealing with life.