"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
Poet Haniel Long said, "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty."
W. S. Gilbert wrote, "It's love that makes the world go round." And if that's true, then the world spun a little faster with Haley in it. Haley was my best friend since we were in high school. We certainly had our struggles, but if there's one thing we agreed on unconditionally, it was our love and commitment to our son Jack. Haley's love for Jack was joyous and fierce. That fierceness is why she isn't here today. A mother's love is an unrivaled force of nature. And we can all learn much from the way Haley lived her life. Haley's death causes each of us to stop and take stock of our lives; to measure who we are and what we've become. I don't have all those answers for myself, but I know who Haley was. She was the woman who died protecting the child we brought into this world together. And I will make sure that Jack grows up knowing who his mother was and how she loved and protected him and how much I loved her. If Haley were with us today, she would ask us not to mourn her death but to celebrate her life. She would tell us... She would tell us to love our families unconditionally and to hold them close, because in the end, they are all that matter. I met Haley at the tryouts of our high school's production of The Pirates of Penzance. I found our copy of the play and I was looking through it the other night, and I came upon a passage that seemed appropriate for this moment: "Oh, dry the glistening tear that dews that martial cheek. Thy loving children hear, in them thy comfort seek. With sympathetic care their arms around thee creep, for, oh, they cannot bear to see their father weep."
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson [NOTE: This quote is falsely attributed to Emerson and was first published in a 1940 book by William Morrow and Company titled Meditations in Wall Street. At the time the book was published, the author of the quote was unknown, but in 1947, The New York Times identified the author as Henry Stanley Haskins, a Wall Street trader with a checkered background.]
"Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure." Tacitus
Washington Irving said, "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." [NOTE: This quote is frequently misattributed to Irving. The earliest instance it could be located was in an article that was published by The American Masonic Register on February 6, 1841. Here, the quote was not attributed to anyone. In 1845, the quote was printed in The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend, published by William C. Brown, who attributed the quote to an author named Dr. Johnson, whose first name was never disclosed.]
Mildred Lisette Norman wrote, "Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."
Isaac Asimov wrote, "In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
"Life is a game; play it. Life is too precious; do not destroy it." Mother Teresa [NOTE: This quote is often misattributed to Mother Teresa and is actually a variant of Kent M. Keith's 1968 book The Paradoxical Commandments.]
"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." C. S. Lewis [NOTE: Lewis never actually said this quote; it was written for the 1993 film Shadowlands and was spoken by Anthony Hopkins, who played Lewis.]
"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, who then am I?" German psychologist Erich Fromm
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." Sir Walter Scott
"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Shakespeare wrote, "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." [NOTE: This quote is frequently misattributed to Shakespeare and is actually an old Yiddish proverb.]
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