Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you. – Ecclesiastes 9:9

The memory of the dead is forgotten. – Ecclesiastes 9:5

The righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them. – Ecclesiastes 9:1

The poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded. – Ecclesiastes 9:16

The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong. Time and chance happen to them all. – Ecclesiastes 9:11

As soon as God becomes real to us, people pale by comparison. – Oswald Chambers