A room without a book is like a body without a soul.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
-- Ecclesiastes 9:11
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Did you get what you wanted from this life, after all?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself Beloved,
To feel myself Beloved,
On Earth.
Raymond Carver -
It has been said, `time heals all wounds.´
I do not agree. The wounds remain.
In time, the mind (protecting its sanity),
covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens.
But, it is never gone.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy -
Start by doing what's necessary,
then do what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Saint Francis of Assisi -
I don't think of all the misery,
but of all the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank -
It is in this solitude that we discover
that being is more important than having,
and that we are worth more
than the result of our efforts.
Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude -
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things
out of each day as it goes by.
E.S. Bouton -
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost -
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius -
If I keep a green bough in my heart,
the singing bird will come.
Chinese proverb -
Be happy while you're living,
for you're a long time dead.
Scottish proverb -
Grief can take care of itself,
but to get the full value of a joy
you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain -
There are many changes that take place
when one loses a spouse.
One of those changes is that
you now have a new title.
For a woman, the word 'wife'
is replaced with 'widow.'
It is a title that is given without choice.
AARP
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