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.

Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad; when the journey's over read more

Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad; when the journey's over There'll be time enough for sleep.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, read more

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your read more

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our read more

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have read more

If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have belief that every little breath
Will stay with you for an eternity.

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.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Take life one day at a time,it's not how fast we move or how long we live..it's how we cherish read more

Take life one day at a time,it's not how fast we move or how long we live..it's how we cherish every moment...