“Time Does Not Bring ReliefTime does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year’s bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide. There are a hundred places where I fear To go,—so with his memory they brim. And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, “There is no memory of him here!” And so stand stricken, so remembering him.”

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone”

“Depression years come back to me now as the happy times, even though we were all struggling. We were happy and didn’t know it.”

“The dark sky, Thunder, and Your presence.”

“When you were having what would become your happiest memories in the future, you didn’t know you were having them.”

“The most impactful moments of my life have been the clean ones. The clean streets in the early a.m. hours—the town is mine to own. The blank pages—no story yet written. The new friendship, the new name, the new pair of eyes staring into mine and I can be whoever I want from now on.”

“If you knew every crannyof my heartyou would yet be ignorantof the pain my happymemories bring”

“Seeing the person yeu love come homeHappiness is so simple to a child”

“Your life isn’t behind you; your memories are behind you. Your life is ALWAYS ahead of you. Today is a new day – seize it!”

“Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.”

“We thought everything would be forgotten, but I still remember yourclaws running down my back.I wonder if you still think about us,the way I do.How our legs would crash into each other in the middle of the night, and how we endedup creating the moon in the confines of our beds.”

“some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only… live in poems.”

“In a person’s lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.”

“When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.”