A day of celebration and reflecting on the life of music legend Prince was somewhat overshadowed by an ongoing investigation into the death of the pop icon.
Birthday Wishes For Prince

A day of celebration and reflecting on the life of music legend Prince was somewhat overshadowed by an ongoing investigation into the death of the pop icon.
Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
If ever I was running, it was towards you.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes?
— Jennifer Elisabeth
[Robert’s eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll’s grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother]
The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet, unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.
Dear Friends: I am going to do that which the dead oft promised he would do for me.
The loved and loving brother, husband, father, friend, died where manhood’s morning almost touches noon, and while the shadows still were falling toward the west.
He had not passed on life’s highway the stone that marks the highest point; but, being weary for a moment, he lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still. While yet in love with life and raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic dust.
Yet, after all, it may be best, just in the happiest, sunniest hour of all the voyage, while eager winds are kissing every sail, to dash against the unseen rock, and in an instant hear the billows roar above a sunken ship. For whether in mid sea or ‘mong the breakers of the farther shore, a wreck at last must mark the end of each and all. And every life, no matter if its every hour is rich with love and every moment jeweled with a joy, will, at its close, become a tragedy as sad and deep and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death.
This brave and tender man in every storm of life was oak and rock; but in the sunshine he was vine and flower. He was the friend of all heroic souls. He climbed the heights, and left all superstitions far below, while on his forehead fell the golden dawning, of the grander day.
He loved the beautiful, and was with color, form, and music touched to tears. He sided with the weak, the poor, and wronged, and lovingly gave alms. With loyal heart and with the purest hands he faithfully discharged all public trusts.
He was a worshipper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: ‘For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer!’ He believed that happiness was the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep to-night beneath a wilderness of flowers.
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, ‘I am better now.’ Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas, of fears and tears, that these dear words are true of all the countless dead.
And now, to you, who have been chosen, from among the many men he loved, to do the last sad office for the dead, we give his sacred dust.
Speech cannot contain our love. There was, there is, no gentler, stronger, manlier man.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years ? across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won?t break because our souls are tied.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it’s presence, for love. never. dies.
— Solange nicole
If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead….they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.
— Sharon Swan
Please? Whoever you are, whatever you are? I believe in you even though I don?t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can?t exactly describe what I?m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you?re there and I?m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it?s yours ? just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
These people will try to manipulate you, try to bring you down but remember baby girl you are a queen, own your crown.
— Nikki Rowe
When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do.
— Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes