“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never loses. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?” ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but
often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has
been opened for us.
Helen Keller

Loss

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can
never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. - Helen
Keller

Love and warmth

Sparrows...

Matthew 10:29-31

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Gandhi

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
--Mohandas Gandhi