Jim Carrey

“I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'”

- Jim Carrey, actor and comedian

Dr. Seuss

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss, author and cartoonist

Norman Cousins

"Death is not the greatest loss in life, the greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins, journalist, author, professor and activist

G. K. Chesterton

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

- G. K. Chesterton, author, journalist

William Shakespeare

"And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so."

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (Sonnet 90)

Sara Teasdale

"I make the most of all that comes,
And the least of all that goes."

- Sara Teasdale, poet

William M. Thackeray

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."

- William M. Thackeray, author

C.S. Lewis

"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."

- C.S. Lewis, author