All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through read more

All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through the day easier.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade read more

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

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.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and read more

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

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.

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.

The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the read more

The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.
Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and
fears.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.