“There’s no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.”

Johnny Cash

“God would not give us the same talents if what were right for men were wrong for women.”

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

Stephen Grellet (1772-1855)

“Short words, short sentences, short paragraphs. There’s nothing that can’t be improved by making it shorter and better.”

Charles Osgood (1933-2024)

I have owned and used a paper bookmark, produced by the Salvation Army, for maybe 20 years or more. It quotes Hebrews 11:1 from the Bible:

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Mystical, beautiful and profound, whenever I stop to read my little bookmark I go off into other worlds for awhile, contemplating faith.

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”

James Dean

“Of course I’m respectable. I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.”

John Huston as Noah Cross in the movie Chinatown (1974)

A man who would not defend his father’s grave is worse than a wild beast.

Chief Joseph

“The most beautiful journeys are taken through a window.”

Last line from the movie King of Hearts (1966)

“Smooth seas do not make good sailors.”

Original source unknown, attributed to several people and proverbs