I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar read more

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In read more

The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make read more

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Making all future fruits of all the pasts.

Making all future fruits of all the pasts.

The meaning of life is over comming death.

The meaning of life is over comming death.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
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Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o'erhead.