Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. read more

Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet. Cherish them.

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.

All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.

All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good read more

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all read more

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly read more

Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And read more

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.