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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .
With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the read more
With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
