Smile, damn it !! Smile.

Smile, damn it !! Smile.

Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].

Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round read more

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the read more

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.