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.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because read more

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Don’t let people make you feel bad or guilty for living your life. It is your life, live it the read more

Don’t let people make you feel bad or guilty for living your life. It is your life, live it the way you want.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good read more

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the read more

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.rn

Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.

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.

My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi.

My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi.