"I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect."

-- Queen Elizabeth II

#Gratitude Quotes #Short Life Quotes #Grief Quotes

“When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.”
“Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.”
“Men should strive to think much and know little.”
“Think what you want, this is what we are.”
“I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving”

Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.84, Nellie Bly
“Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.”
“We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.”
“For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.”

Source : 1939 FirstWill andTestament,'The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost'.

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