"Relationships with others, living or dead, frame one's sense of self and how one lives. More and more we appreciate that there is continuity between the past and the present. Without a sense of the past and an understanding of its place in people's lives, it is difficult to move ahead." ~encyclopedia.com

"Meh, good enough." ~Mediocrates 

 "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... the man who never reads lives only one." ~George RR Martin

 "What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us." ~Helen Keller

"He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over." ~Og Mandino 

 "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." ~Og Mandino

 "The pains of earth cannot shout down the joys of heaven." ~Brother Mitch Hose

 "If you cannot understand why someone is grieving for so long, consider yourself fortunate that you do not understand." ~John Polo

"My grief will last as long as my love for you- forever." ~unknown

 "Facts don't care about feelings." ~unknown

 NOT

I'm not letting go

Said my sister to me

I'm so glad for that moment

She didn't let go...

I didn't want her to

We held tight

(Written by my brother for me)

 "Nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting somebody in it." ~Unknown

 "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled." ~unknown

 "There's a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good." ~unknown

"Let everything happen to you; beauty and terror just keep going. No feeling is final." ~Rainer Marie Rilke 

 "In my library, I find a friend for every mood." ~unknown

 "Normality is a paved road; it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it." ~Vincent Van Gogh

 "Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there." ~Thomas Fuller

 "Life starts when you let it." ~unknown

"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind." ~C.S. Lewis 

 "The sun will set without thy assistance." ~the Talmud

 "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." ~James Allen

 "Every thought we think is creating our future." ~Louise L Hay

Ideas are the root of creation. ~unknown 

 "He is richest who is content with the least." ~Charles H. Spurgeon

Pain will come, but name it a mystery, and find manna in it, and taste bits of miracle even in what you can hardly stand and don't understand. ~Ann VosKamp, Waymaker page 35

"Daybreak is a never-ending glory... getting out of bed is a never-ending nuisance." ~ G. K. Chesterson

 It's when we expect life to be easy that it becomes hard. ~Ann VosKamp, Waymaker page 9

 Sadness is the soul's way of saying, "This mattered." ~unknown

 God has you in his keeping. I have you in my heart. ~unknown

 When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. ~unknown

 Sometimes walls are there for you to lean against and rest. ~a grieving widow

"You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy." ~ Jane Marczewski aka Nightbirde

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves. ~ A.W. Tozer 

 As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once. ~ A.W. Tozer

 To heal a wound you need to stop touching it. ~unknown

 Life can only be understood backwards. It must be lived forwards. ~Soren Kierkegaard

 We don't lose friends, we just learn who our real ones are. ~unknown

 Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones. ~John Lennon

The best things in life are free. And it's important to never lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love... there is your treasure. ~Neale Donald Walsch

 The only people I owe my loyalty to are those who never made me question theirs. ~unknown

 True friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient, it's about being there when it's not. ~unknown

Pursue some faith, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. ~Henry David Thoreau

Life is for the living… our time will come to rest but until then, Live! ~someone's mom

"She was powerful, not because she wasn’t scared, but because she went on so strongly despite the fear."⠀~Atticus