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.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of read more

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. -Pericles.

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 a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be read more

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only read more

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of read more

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.