"You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in."
Heraclitis C. 500 BC
"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead."
Nelson Mandela, 2002. (Nelson Mandela By Himself)
"No man is an island, entire of itself."
John Donne (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 1624)
"… but the pathos and the gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak or our most victorious joy."
Alexandra Fuller (Cocktail Hour Under The Tree Of Forgetfulness)
"If there’s love, dear, those are the ties that bind and you’ll have a family in your heart forever."
Mrs Doubtfire
"If I’m honest, I have to tell you, I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all."