If you do something once,
people will call it an accident.
If you do it twice, t
hey call it a coincidence.
But do it a third time, and
you've just proven a natural law.
- Grace Hopper
Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
Hey, Marge. Isn't it great being married
to someone who's recklessly impulsive?
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
It's fine to celebrate success
but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.
- Terry Goodkind
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
A broken bone can heal, but the wound
a word opens can fester forever.
- Jessamyn West
Believe in the goodness of life.
Believe in the power of time to heal and to renew.
Believe in the power of forgiveness and gratitude.
Believe in the gift of rainbows and butterflies.
Believe in the laughter of children.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone can heal who believes that he can
and will take the time to put that belief into motion.
- Ernest Holmes
The greatest force in the human body
is the natural drive of the body to heal itself -
but that force in not independent of the belief system.
Everything begins with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
- Norman Cousins
I am the Wizard. This world is mine.
I speak. It's done. My realm is fine.
My wand, my tongue. My sword, my voice.
It's good. It's bad. I speak my choice.
I say happy, or I say mad.
I say angry, or I say glad.
I name that drawing on the wall.
It's not graffiti after all.
The past has been broken. The prison's not real.
My word holds the magic - the power to heal.
Intent is my weapon - a sword from above.
Cruel hate, fear, and anger transmute into love.
This world's my joy. This mouth's my toy.
Reborn -I'm a brand new girl or boy.
I choose. I speak. My will is done.
Come join. Come play. This can be fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
I Cheat Death by Enjoying Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss.
It is originally an unlearned feeling process.
Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
- Anne Grant
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
We come this way but once.
We can either tiptoe through life
and hope we get to death without being badly bruised
or we can live a full, complete life achieving
our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
- Bob Proctor
Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
Shrinking away from death
is something unhealthy and abnormal -
which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- Carl Jung
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
I give you this one thought to keep -
I am with you still - I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the sweet uplifting rush,
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft starts that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone -
I am with you still in each new dawn.
- Traditional Native American Prayer
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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