For You When I Am Gone Quotes

“The dead don’t go anywhere. They’re all here. Each man is a cemetery. An actual cemetery, in which lie all our grandmothers and grandfathers, the father and mother, the wife, the child. Everyone is here all the time.” It’s literally true, in the sense that we have within us the DNA of family that came before us. It is also metaphorically true in the sense that we carry the stories, the experiences, the wisdom, the failures, and the beauty of each of the lives on our family tree that came before our own. And not just of family, but of everyone we care about, everyone who has in some way touched our lives.”
― Steve Leder, For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story

“They were waiting for something to happen—waiting for the right man or the right woman; waiting for children to grow up; waiting to pay off the mortgage; waiting for a vacation; waiting for retirement; waiting to get involved in the community; waiting to learn some new skill or hobby; waiting, waiting, waiting. Ninety-four percent of us waiting, while each new day passes us by.”
― Steve Leder, For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story