The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good read more

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

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.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own read more

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it read more

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

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.

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

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.