“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the […]

“Youth fails, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall: A mother’s love outlives them all.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde

“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.”
Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek)

“hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies”
from The Shawshank Redemption

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln

“I will see you again, but not yet…not yet.”
from Gladiator

“And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds.”
Homer, Iliad