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“That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one” The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

I got this tattoo 1 month ago, 4 years after my dad died from pancreatic cancer, whose cancer ribbon is purple. The roses represent the 10 people in my immediate family and the poem got me through the hopelessness of my dad’s cancer diagnosis, battle, his death and finally living… Read More

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now.” Christopher Paolini, Eldest

The best advice I received from a book is that we're all an important part of this world. "That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one." The five people you meet in heaven, Mitch Albom

The best advice I ever received from a book is that we're all an important part of this world and we all leave an imprint. "That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one." The five people you meet in heaven,… Read More

Evening Solace by Charlotte Bronte The first stanza in particular has been so important and helpful to me. THE human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed;-- The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. And days… Read More

'Hope' is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never stops—at all— And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard— And sore must be the storm— That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm— I've heard it in the chillest… Read More

"I can tell you that the end of a life is the sum of the love that was lived in it, that whatever you think you have sworn, being here at the end of Jem's life is not what is important. It was being here for every other moment. Since you met him, you have never left him and never… Read More