“What greater honor,when a person moves forward,they leave behind in each of us, the best of what they were.”
“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.”
“Awe is what moves us forward.”
“They did what they did, and moved forward despite whatever trail of ashes they left behind.”
“It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you, It's what you leave behind you when you go.”
“For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night. . . . I felt lucky to get my shoes on the right feet. . . . I moved forward only, thinking each morning anew that we were leaving the worst behind.”