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He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own read more
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
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.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They read more
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the read more
With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. read more
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo read more
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -Crowfoot.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.