Bittersweet.

"It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days."

~Isabel Waxman

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

~Attributed to Mark Twain, unconfirmed

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see."
~John Burroughs

"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these."

~Susan B. Anthony

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it."

~From the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

~John Wooden

"To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions."

~William James

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

~Nelson Henderson

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
~e.e. cummings

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."

~Seneca

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

~Thomas Henry Huxley

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

~Henry David Thoreau

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same."

~Flavia Weedn

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next."

~Gilda Radner

(good luck, my boys.)