There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you read more

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.

If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am read more

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.

Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is read more

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.