Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life read more

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.

They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven read more

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and read more

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.