Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.

Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath read more

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

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

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length read more

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as
well.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years read more

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

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.