For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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 hard. After all it kills you.
Life is hard. After all it kills you.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of read more
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. -Pericles.
When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train read more
When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train fare, all you can do is hope that someone will stop and pick you up.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have read more
If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have belief that every little breath
Will stay with you for an eternity.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or read more
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.rn
