Tag: life

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels....

Anymore, no one’s mind is their own....

Vital lives are about action. You can’t feel warmth unless you create it, can’t feel delight until you play, can’t know serendipity unless you risk....

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility....

You should read something else.”Why would he have done that to him?”I don’t know,” she said.Do you ever feel like Job?”She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes.Sometimes.”But you haven’t lost your faith?”No,” I knew she hadn’t, but I think I...

Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult....

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. … Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows,...

War is not for winning, Masha,” sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. “It is for surviving....

Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June....

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom’s realm of ice and cloud,...