“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss

"Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice."
-Truman Capote's Other Voices Other Rooms

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friends are the family you choose." ~ Jess C. Scott

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

--Washington Irving

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

--Jack Kerouac

"You never know what is enough, unless you know what is more than enough." ~ William Blake

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

--Johannes Brahms

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

--William Blake

You don't get to decide how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you've going to live, Now. -Joan Baez

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

--E. M. Forster

Perhaps love is like a resting place, A shelter from the storm, It exists to give you comfort, It is there to keep you warm, And in those times of trouble, When you are most alone, The memory of love will bring you home
~John Denver