"to die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable." Erich Fromm.
"for the man sound of body and serene of mind, there is no such thing as bad weather. every day has its beauty. and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously." George Gissing
"hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." George Iles
"Things do not change. we change." Henry David Thoreau
"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance." Jean de la fontaine
"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it." Mary Catherine Bateson
"Adversity is like a strong wind. it tears from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we realy are." Arthur Golden
"we are each on our journey. each of us are on our very own adventure, encountering all kinds of challenge and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go. those choices will stretch us and test us and push us to our limits, and our adventure will make us stronger than we ever knew we could be." Penelope Garcia - Hope,
Joseph Cambel, "find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."
"everybody wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die." Joe Louis
"sometimes, i want to fight, but my body, it keeps telling me to stop. and it doesn't matter how hard i punch, it just -- i can't do it. and when that happens, you know what i do? i let go, Ryan. and what i figured out is.. letting go doesn't mean that you're a quitter. it doesn't mean that you lost. it just means that you realize in that moment that it's time to let go, and move on. so if it's time, Ryan, it's all right. cause you fought a hell of a fight." Jimmy Hall to his dying son, Ryan.
Herman Hesse, "some of us think holding on makes us strong. but sometimes it is letting go."
Eckhart Tolle, "where there is anger, there is always pain underneath."
"live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you." H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"it was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you but trusting them not to."
"for every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth." Bo Bennett
"memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin." Barbara Kingsolver
"nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." Michel de Montaigne
"we are each our own devil, and we make this world our own hell." Oscar Wilde
"all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." Edgar Allan Poe
"worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life staying true to a lie." Robert Brault
"sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." William Blake
"to the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth." Voltaire
"fear is met and destroyed with courage." James F Bell
"three can keep a secret if two are dead." Benjamin Franklin
"there is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy." Dante"
"we do not suffer from the shock of our trauma, but we make out of it just what suits our purposes." Alfred Adler
"all the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." Henry Ellis
"at the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons." Chinese Proverb
"a gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane" George Augustus Sala
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