Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and almost never leave. Our lives are measured by those.
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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its read more
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your read more
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.
Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
