Tag: life

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives....

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing....

I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot...

Life is hard. After all, it kills you....

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate...

We are unusual and tragic and alive....

May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your...

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs....

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain....

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness....