This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again. ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

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What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. ― Charles Dickens

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ― W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness. — Max Lucado

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