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.

They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.

They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.

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.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand read more

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its read more

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

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.