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.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell read more

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates read more

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like

Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

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.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.