Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that
tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt read more

As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that
tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and
that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, read more

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth read more

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.