In Loving Memory
Those whom we have loved and lost are no longer where they were before. They are now wherever we are.
ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, D. 407 AD
Be Not Afraid
I do not fear that I may have to die. I fear that I have never lived.
ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
The Eternal City
Our dead are never dead to us unless we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOT
Matter of Fact
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1709–1784
Happy Days
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well-used brings happy death.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, 1452–1519
Keys of the Kingdom
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential . . . these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
CONFUCIUS, 551–479 BC
People Listening Without Hearing
To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well and is essential to all true conversation.
CHINESE PROVERB
Home, Sweet Home
A house is built of logs and stone,
Of piles and post and piers:
A home is built of loving deeds,
That stand a thousand years.
VICTOR HUGO
True Love Ways
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO
Starry, Starry Night
For my part I know nothing with any certainty,
But the sight of the stars makes me dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH, 1853–1890
The Road of Life
The journey is the reward.
TAO WISDOM
Artistic Merit
The greatest artist of all is Christ, who doesn’t work with canvas but rather with human flesh.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Will to Power
I will be truthful
I will suffer no injustice
I will be free from fear
I will not use force
I will be of good will to all.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Everything Goes
Everything is yours; do with it what you will.
Give me only your love and grace.
That is enough for me.
ST IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, 1491–1556
River Runs
God is a great underground river that no one
Can dam up and no one can stop
MEISTER ECKHART
Joy
Give me a sense of humour
Give me the grace to see a joke
To get some pleasure out of life
And pass it on to other folk.
ANON
Equality
When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
ANON
Sun Set
The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD
Time Well Spent
Prolong not the past
Invite not the future
Alter not your innate wakefulness
Don’t fear appearances
There is nothing more than this.
BUDDHA
Small is Beautiful
Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.
BUDDHA
Leadership
A leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and like it.
HARRY S. TRUMAN, 1884–1972
Sleeping Beauty
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
AESCHYLUS, 525–456 BC
Happy Hour
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
AESCHYLUS
Fortune Favours the Brave
Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practise moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.
AESCHYLUS
Simply the Best
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
AESCHYLUS
On My Oath
It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
AESCHYLUS
Weighty Words
The reward of suffering is experience.
Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
AESCHYLUS
A Worthy Undertaking
Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN, 1835–1910
How Deep is Your Love?
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
HELEN KELLER, 1880–1968