I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. --Haruki Murakami
To laugh often & much, to win the respect of intelligent people & the affection of children; to leave the world a bit better, to know even one life had breathed easier because you had lived; that is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson