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Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves read more
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, read more
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and almost never leave. Our lives are measured by those.
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length read more
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as
well.
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train read more
When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train fare, all you can do is hope that someone will stop and pick you up.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
