I heard this quote today which made me smile as I think it is a lovely idea and one that can help us through our grief
“If you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, stand up and turn it on yourself”
Think I may put that on my fridge!

I was lucky enough last week to meet a truly inpirational lady. Roz Savage is not just sitting back and allowing life to happen she is creating her own future. She is – would you believe – rowing the Pacific Ocean, well what else do you do when you have already rowed the Atlantic!
She helped me see through the darkness and see that 2009 was a year in which we could all define our success, our own happiness and she sent me this quote from Chidinma Obietikponah

Always show the you in you that makes you the you that you are.

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I came across this quote from Harry Rappaport who said

“I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.”

The reality of bereavement is that we are shaken to our core, our beliefs can be shaken, our belief in the goodness of life can be shaken. You all know how I love quotes to help us think about the future, well Anne Lamott has a wonderful quote to help us
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.”
Grief can stop us in our tracks, stop us from living because of the guilt that …read more

Death brings a new thinking about life. I read this quote on life…not sure who said it!
“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well”
On those dark days, the days when you are battling against the depression all widows and widowers feel…then think about this quote. We have loved, we have lost…..in rebuilding our life we need to think of the width as well as the length of our life’s journey.