"Life will break you ...."

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich

"While I thought ...."

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Leonardo da Vinci

"I wish you enough ...."

“I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.

I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting. 

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.

I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good- bye.”

"Loneliness is ...."

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Thomas Wolfe