Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live would be an awful big adventure.

J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran

As is a tale, so is life; not how long it is, but how good it is—is what matters.

Seneca

What we achieve inwardly will change outward reality.

Plutarch

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction.

J. K. Rowling (at Harvard University, delivering commencement speech. June 2008)

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

André Malraux

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung