THE LIGHT WITHIN...

There isnt enough darkness in this world to blow away the light within me...

I do not know who had written these words... But I remember reading this a long time ago, and the words have been resonating within me ever since...

PROGRESS

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable persists in trying to adapt the
world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

UNITED WE DESTROY...

Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred of something.

- Anton Chekov

GRIEF

For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.

- Bhagavad Gita

~Yet having a heart that we have and the way it beats for our loved ones, grief is as inevitable as fate~

We Owe God a Death

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once: we owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base mind: an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: no man is too good to serve's prince; and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.

- William Shakespeare

SELF PITY

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.


- D. H. Lawrence

Death Must Be So Beautiful...

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

– Oscar Wilde

Music is my Refuge...

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

- Maya Angelou

PAIN

To purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live.

- Alexander Pope