The love that once was born can not die
For it has become part of us, of our life,
Woven into the very texture of our being.
Each of us would wish to leave some part of ourselves,
So here and now we bear witness to the one we knew in life,
Who now in death bequeaths a subtle part, precious and beloved,
Which will be with us in truth and beauty,
In dignity and courage and love
To the end of our days.

~Algernon Black

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.

~Albert Camus

Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. ln those transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own.

~Fritz Williams

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

~Helen Keller

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

~Hermann Hesse

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full

~Marcel Proust

Where there is love, there is pain.

~Spanish Proverb

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

~Albert Einstein

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

~Edward Everett Hale

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

~Elbert Hubbard

You must do the things you think you cannot do

~Eleanor Roosevelt

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

~George Bernard Shaw

Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

~Margaret Mead

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

~Marian Wright Edelman

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

~Theodore Roosevelt

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth

~Mitsugi Saotome

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

~Abraham Lincoln

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~Anais Nin

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

~Andy Warhol

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

~M. Scott Peck

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

~Mary Antin

Life is a progress, and not a station.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

~Nietzsche

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

~Albert Einstein

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

~Benjamin Disraeli

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

~Viktor Frankel

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

~Ben Sweetland

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

~Margaret Fuller

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

~Henry David Thoreau

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

~Margaret Chase Smith

The best way out is always through.

~Robert Frost

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

~Theodore H. White

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity

~Albert Einstein

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

~Goethe

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

~Oscar Wilde

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

~Thomas Alva Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up

~Thomas Alva Edison

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

~Dale Carnegie

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain

~Emily Dickinson

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

~Elbert Hubbard

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

~Mary Oliver Blackwater Woods

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death

~Thomas Paine

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

~Albert Einstein

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

~Anais Nin

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

~Albert Schweitzer

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

~Edmund Burke

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.

~Mary Pettibone Poole

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

~Marian Wright Edelman

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

~Garrison Keillor

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

~Cicero

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

~Elizabeth Hardiwick

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

 ~Helen Keller

If you love deeply, you will grieve deeply, If you deny your grief, you deny the reality of the love you felt

~Dianne McKendree

No bond in closer union knits to human hearts than fellowship in grief

~Robert Southey in Joan of Arc & Minor Poems

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheque. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do...with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

~Vincent Van Gogh

The day we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity

~Seneca

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

~E.V. Lucas

Suicide grief isn't the kind of life experience that just knocks on one's door. Rather, it kicks the door in to show itself full in the survivor's face.

~Carol J. Billow

If you're going through hell, keep going

~Winston Churchill

As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.

~Sascha

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean

~David Searls

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

~Alponse de Lamartine

The cure for grief is motion

~Elbert Hubbard

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

~Erich Fromm

He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it

~Turkish proverb

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength

~Ovid

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly

~Christina Nevell Bovee

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the power of the mind

~Marcel Proust

...Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into better shape.

~Charles Dickens