“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
“Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.”
“I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.”
“I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.”
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer”
– Helen Hunt Jackson
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