be now for ever taken from my sight
though nothing can bring back the hour
of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
in years that bring the philosophic mind.
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan (1908-1981) -
Nietchze: God is dead.
God: Nietchze is dead.
The sobs and tears of joy he had not forseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking.
Falling on his knees by her bed, he held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with a weak movement of fingers. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before....
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) -
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -
Finally my brothers, rejoice in the Lord!
- Philippians 3:1 -
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