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Because the references might disappear tomorrow, this is for posterity.

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easer because you have live.  This is to have succeeded.”
    –Ralph Waldo Emerson – Cheerful

“The van waits in the driveway, its double doors stand open.  The two of them, one on either side now, take me by the elbows to help me in.  Whether this is my end or a new beginning I have no way of knowing:  I have given myself over into the hands of strangers, because it can’t be helped.
   
And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.”

    –Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale – Sincere

“Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery.  Though shared by each of us and known to all, it seldom rates a second thought.  That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never thing twice about, is time.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that hour can seem an eternity or pass in a flash, depending on how we spend it.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”

– Michael Ende, MOMO

“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

– “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)