If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our read more

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years read more

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

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.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things read more

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.