Dak Prescott Quotes

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

It's extraordinary to hear from people who are bereaved, or gone through a divorce, and they still take the time to tell me how a certain track or album helped them through tough times, or kept them sane.

I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were in hospital, and I sang at their services after they passed.

'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother's death.

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

My mom achieved so much more than the doctors said she ever would. I miss her.

When my grandma passed away, the one person I prayed for was my mom. I just hope that she finds peace. I hope she believes in a loving life.

I tell women who have gone through cancer that healing from it requires receiving care, receiving support, letting friends and family rally around us. It is time to receive.

So often, when somebody dies in the family, whether a child or a parent, there is no one to lean on. When something like that happens, you go into a shell, but on the other hand, it's a really good thing to talk it over and say how you feel.

If you live through the death of your child, you should be able to talk about it and let other people know it's OK to go on.

First of all, a lot of people, a lot of women and men, have lost their children. I'm not the only one. But I happen to be blessed that my son gave me all these things to work with so that I get to work out my grief in a way that other people are not able to. So I can't possibly be downtrodden about that.

That's the number one rule after you lose someone is go to somebody else, go to the people around you, be with the people that you love.

I know when my parents passed away, I wanted all the support I could get.

If you're going through a hard time or if you've experienced a miscarriage, so many women have come up to me and said they went through the same thing, and they never wanted to talk about it, so I hope my journey can help you and that you can find God in my life.

Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called 'I Found You Among the Roses.'

Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

After the loss of my sister - my darkest time - I tried to think of the beauty she'd brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind.

I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.'