When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was read more

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - read more

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.

You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.

One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.

One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your read more

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.