Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or read more

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.rn

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started read more

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was read more

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back.

Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because read more

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.