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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because read more
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.
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.
Believe in life's message; follow your hearts desired fate.
Believe in life's message; follow your hearts desired fate.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart read more
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and read more
This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
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.
