You are alone. There is a wall now where none existed before, standing between you and the rest of the world. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

You can become a channel and a source of great inner strength. But you must give up everything in order to gain everything. What must you give up? All that is not truly you; all that you have chosen without choosing and value without evaluating, accepting because of someone else’s extrinsic judgment, rather than your own; all your self-doubt that keeps you from trusting and loving yourself or other human beings.

And death has a cruel way of giving regrets more attention than they deserve.

Life is unfair. Death is unfair.