Courage to know yourself,

This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton
Never apologize for showing feeling.
When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli