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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold read more
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length read more
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as
well.
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth read more
I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, read more
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and almost never leave. Our lives are measured by those.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. read more
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good read more
The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
