" A brother is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit. "

— Unknown

" I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "

— Henry David Thoreau

" I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better. "

— Jeffrey Fry

" True friends don’t say goodbye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other. "

— Unknown

" A farewell is not the end of something, but the start of something new. "

— Unknown

" "The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." "

— Ralph Waldo Emerson