Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our read more

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

Life is like wind. When it blows, it washes everything away, so clutch onto what you are holding.

Life is like wind. When it blows, it washes everything away, so clutch onto what you are holding.

Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
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Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
After old age had and sad,
Earth will slumber over us.
[Lat., Gaudeamus igitur,
Juvenes dum sumus
Post pucundam juventutem.
Post molestam senectutem.
Nos habetit humus.]

Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes.

Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes.

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the read more

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern.

Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.

Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.

Cats and monkeys -- monkeys and cats -- all human life is there.

Cats and monkeys -- monkeys and cats -- all human life is there.