Children’s book illustrator and Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak, in an NPR Fresh Air interview less than a year before his death in 2012, made a heartwarming call to "live your life, live your life, live your life".
For my late Uncle Denis, who passed away 10 years ago, for his loved ones, and for yours. Now, while we still have the time - i.e. now - we just have to "Be, as a page that aches for a word, which speaks on a theme that is timeless".
We can so easily slip back from what we have struggled to attain, abruptly, into a new life we never wanted- can find that we are trapped, as in a dream, and die there, without ever waking up - Rainer Maria Rilke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rilke
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts- and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs - George Eliot, Middlemarch
Your body is a ghost factory that takes one lifetime to produce a ghost - @aRealLiveGhost
You can close your eyes and pray that he'll come back, Or you can open your eyes and see all he's left... - David Harkins
Write what should not be forgotten - Isabel Allende
When the party's through Seems so very sad for you Didn't do the things you meant to do Now there's no time to start anew - Nick Drake.
When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived - Henry David Thoreau
What is the price of Experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price Of all that a man hath, his house, his wife, his children, Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy, And in the wither'd field where the farmer ploughs for bread in vain from 'Vala: Night the Second' - William Blake