“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
-Mitch Albom
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s
death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
– John Donne
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
-George Bernard Shaw
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
-Albert Einstein
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-Tryon Edwards
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
– Mark Twain
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
– Mark Twain
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
-John F. Kennedy
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
– William Butler Yeats
Life is relationships; the rest is just details.
– Gary Smalley
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
– Anthony J. D’Angelo
“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
– Vince Lombardi
“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”
– Mario Andretti
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being “drawn toward.” Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one’s friends and enemies.
– Carter Heyward
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
“In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.”
– W.B. Prescott
“Well done is better than well said.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Grief can awaken us to new values and new and deeper appreciations. Grief can cause us to reprioritize things in our lives, to recognize what’s really important and put it first. Grief can heighten our gratitude as we cease taking the gifts life bestows on us for granted. Grief can give us the wisdom of being with death. Grief can make death the companion on our left who guides us and gives us advice.
None of this growth makes the loss good and worthwhile, but it is the good that comes out of the bad.
– Roger Bertschausen
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well
– Vincent van Gogh
“Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
– Frances de Sales
Nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small it takes time — we haven’t time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
– Georgia O’Keeffe
No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.
– Theodore Roosevelt
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
– Thomas Jefferson
Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.
– George Bernard Shaw
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
– Mohandas K. Gandhi
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
– Francis Bacon
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
– Mark Twain
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
– Maya Angelou
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.- Phyllis Diller
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
– Peter Ustinov
It’s true that we only live here once, but if we do it right, once is enough
– Paul C. Brownlow
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
– Doug Larson
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
– Garrison Keillor
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
– Henri Bergson
Every blade in the field, every leaf in the forest, lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.-
Henry David Thoreau
“A Mother holds her children’s hands for a while.. their hearts forever”
“To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.”
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
-A. Sachs
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
-Bertolt Brecht
For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.
-From The Bhagavad Gita
He not busy being born is busy dying.
-Bob Dylan
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
-George Bernard Shaw
“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
-Richard Evans
“All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.”
-Chinese Proverbs
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
-Christian Dior
“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”
– Paul Erdos
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
– Thomas Henry Huxley
“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
“We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction.”
– General Douglas MacArthur
Nothing endures but change
– Heraclitus
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
-Martin H. Fischer
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
-A. A. Milne
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
– Logan Pearsall Smith
“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
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
– Nelson Mandela
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.”
– Ian L. Fleming