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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed read more
Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell.
Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
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.
Sometimes there are no second chances; so forgive the past, remember the present and prepare for the future. It's the read more
Sometimes there are no second chances; so forgive the past, remember the present and prepare for the future. It's the only life you're given.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if read more
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up
for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period
of barrenness.
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things read more
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.