Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

I know not if the dark or bright
Shall be by lot;
If that wherein my hopes read more

I know not if the dark or bright
Shall be by lot;
If that wherein my hopes delight
Be best or not.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert read more

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert Humphrey.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven read more

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.

You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.

They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.

They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.