“ Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials. Columba Stewart
“ The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open… Washington Irving
“ Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times. Compton Gage
“ Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general. Germany Kent
“ Maybe we're just falling stars, we once danced in the same skyline looking down at the world. And we've fallen like all others, from near and far, we've gathered together, but separated by time and sp… Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache
“ Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
