“Do not punish yourself with thoughts of what you could have done differently. If you look at life as a whole, most of our conduct is second-rate. We are blind to the goodness people are prepared to offer us. We only half-listen when someone tells us something they have dreaded saying. Death does not send us a letter giving three weeks' notice. It arrives when you are eating raspberry sweets. When you have to go out and mow the lawn.”
― The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
― The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
“The disease of mortality is in us from the womb, from the day of our birth we are on the way to our death. What matters is how we conduct the journey.”
― The Devil's Novice
― The Devil's Novice
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