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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.
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people read more
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -George Bernard Shaw.
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. read more
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning read more
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that
tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt read more
As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that
tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and
that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.
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.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away
