Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, read more

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell read more

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never read more

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

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.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through read more

All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through the day easier.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if read more

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.