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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm read more
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years read more
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how read more
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg.
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.
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .