Calendar of Affirmations

Affirmations

Enjoy inspirational quotes from the book and other authors about hope, loss, connection and finding yourself. Discover a new quote each day. Check in daily and give yourself a lift! 

 

 

September 26

"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one.”
- Seneca

 

Week of September 1

September 1

"Hope had a magical way of healing someone.”
- Mikki Brammer

 

September 2

“Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.”
- Madeleine L’Engle

 

 

September 3

“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
- Unknown

 

September 4

“People who were complete strangers to me less than a year ago had forever shifted the trajectory of my life.”
- Mikki Brammer

 

 

September 5

"We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”
- Maya Angelou

 

September 6

“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.” 
- Stephen King 

 

September 7

“If you could know the date of your death in advance, would you want to?” 
- Mikki Brammer 

Week of September 8

September 8

"You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
- Jojo Moyes

 

September 9

“Dying is an art, like everything else.”
- Sylvia Plath

 

September 10

“We all know we’re going to die. That’s guaranteed. So shouldn’t we be making the most of our lives anyway?"
- Mikki Brammer

 

September 11

"It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
- Lewis Carroll 

 

September 12

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
- Ernest Hemingway

 

September 13

“Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life - and the people we love - will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic.” 
- Mikki Brammer 

 

September 14

“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” 
- H. Jackson Brown 

Week of September 15

September 15

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
- Ludwig Jacobowski

 

September 16

“Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring a simpler truth: We are here.”
- Mikki Brammer

 

September 17

“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."
- Charlotte Bronte

 

September 18

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

- Oscar Wilde

 

September 19

"The secret to a beautiful death is living a beautiful life.”
- Mikki Brammer

 

September 20

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” 
- Paulo Coelho 

 

September 21

“Don’t let the best parts of life pass you by because you’re too scared of the unknown.” 
- Mikki Brammer 

Week of September 22

September 22

"The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.”
- Pittacus Lore

 

September 23

“Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for.”
- Joseph Heller

 

September 24

“Grief is like a bag that you always carry - it starts out as large as a suitcase, and as the years go by, it might reduce to the size of a purse, but you carry it forever."
- Mikki Brammer

 

September 25

"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.”
- Chuck Palahniuk

 

September 26

"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one.”
- Seneca

 

September 27

“It frustrated me that society was so determined to quantify grief, as if time could erase the potency of love.” 
- Mikki Brammer 

 

September 28

“Too much sanity may be madness – and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be.” 
- Miguel de Cervantes 

Week of September 29

September 29

"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
-  Dan Brown

 

September 30

“Grief is just love looking for a place to settle.”
- Mikki Brammer

 

October 1

“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
- Emily Dickinson

 

October 2

"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
- A.A. Milne

 

October 3

"If you want something you don’t have, you have to do something you’ve never done.”
- Mikki Brammer

 

October 4

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” 
- Stephen Chbosky

 

October 5

“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” 
- Rupi Kaur

Week of October 6

October 6

"Misleading someone who was grieving a loved one felt cruel.”
- Mikki Brammer

 

October 7

“Time moves slowly but passes quickly.”
- Alice Walker

 

October 8

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
- Harriet Beecher-Stowe

 

October 9

"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid, that you'll let yourself live.”
- Mikki Brammer

 

October 10

"It’s never the changes we want that change everything.”
- Junot Diaz

 

October 11

“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise." 
- Victor Hugo

 

October 12

“Your grief is yours to process in your own time, in whatever way works for you. No one can tell you how to do that.” 
- Mikki Brammer

Week of October 13

October 13

"Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence...The sooner we learn that the better for us all.”
-  Erik Erikson

 

October 14

“...loneliness is...a natural signal our body sends us when we’re lacking something we need for survival.”
- Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General

 

October 15

“Being denied the chance to say goodbye to a loved one left stubborn emotional scars."
- Mikki Brammer

 

October 16

"We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone...and whatever happens is the whole tapestry of one’s life.”
- Sandra Day O’Connor

 

October 17

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
- Mother Teresa

 

October 18

“To die, I knew, meant you were never ever coming back. From that moment on, you only existed in people’s memories.” 
- Mikki Brammer

 

October 19

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.” 
- Maya Angelou

Week of October 20

October 20

"The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared.”
-  Dean Koontz

 

October 21

“People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.”
-  Bob Merrill

 

October 22

“Grief is just love with no place to go."
- Jamie Anderson

 

October 23

“Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.”
- Randy Pausch

 

October 24

"People tell themselves they’ve got plenty of time, until they’re at the mercy of a careless action...And by then, it’s too late.”
- Mikki Brammer

 

October 25

“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.” 
- Sydney Smith

 

October 26

“It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.” 
- Morrie Schwartz

Week of October 27

October 27

"Eye contact was the gateway to conversation.”
-  Mikki Brammer

 

October 28

“To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die.”
-  Thomas Campbell

 

October 29

“Grief does not change you, it reveals you."
- John Green

 

October 30

"To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
- Leigh Bardugo

 

October 31

"Death was an unknown...and the ones who preferred not to think about it while living tended to have the most regrets while dying.”
- Mikki Brammer

 

More Resources

If you’re looking to find inner strength, this article is a great place to start.

Discovering a well of courage can be tough, so begin with these 9 tips.

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy describes how loneliness is an epidemic.

These activities may help you find your purpose in life.

 

This article can help you identify what to do with your life.

Need suggestions on how to interview your family members and acquaintances on their personal history? Check here for help.

Follow these 7 Steps for Managing Grief and Loss.

Check out the benefits of journaling.