Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves read more

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.

The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the read more

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and
that is death!
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We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and
that is death!
[Fr., On entre, on crie,
Et c'est la vie!
On baille, on sort,
Et c'est la mort!]

You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.

You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.