Armed with experience with stormy weather, I stride purposefully out into the day. Mixed sun and rain is forecast, and I know I can handle it, come what may, I’ve purchased an umbrella! Sometimes, I step into a puddle that turns out to be a surprisingly deep pothole, and I stumble and get wet and [...]

You have only one person to forgive in your journey and that is yourself. You are the judge. You are the jury. And you are the prisoner. PAUL FERRINI

The agonies, the mad midnight moments, must, in the course of nature, die away. Just this apathy, this dead flatness?… Does grief finally subside into boredom tinged by faint nausea? But what will follow? C. S. LEWIS

This widow business is getting boring. There’s no longer the life-threatening, overwhelming surge of dramatic emotions. I miss him, and I’m a bit I’ll admit, but I’m not so furious anymore. annoyed with him, AURORA WINTER

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. AGATHA CHRISTIE

I am the light of the world. Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world. The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness. A COURSE IN MIRACLES

Hope springs up, spreading like leaping flames. It seems to come from nowhere, from the smallest, most insignificant spark. Yet it catches hold and spreads like a summer forest fire fanned by warm winds. Now is the time for personal growth, creation, discovery, rebirth. AURORA WINTER

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. KESHAVAN NAIR

Courage, brave heart. Courage. You are more than the love you shared. You are more than your reflection in his admiring eyes. Courage. AURORA WINTER