People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there light is from within.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross

To the unbeliever, death is the end; to the believer, the beginning

Author Unknown

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata, (a Mexican revolutionary) Dolores Ibarruri (Spanish revolutionary)

One thing is certain the rest is lies;
The flower that once has blown forever dies

(The Rubaiyat of) Omar Khayyam

Good-bye, proud world, I’m going home:
Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friend of my many years!
When the great silence falls, at last, on me,
Let me not leave, to pain and sadden thee - a memory of tears,
But pleasant thoughts alone.

John Greenleaf Whittier