God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.