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.

A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of read more

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we read more

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

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.

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant.

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant.

A generous person forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives. Learn, earn, return. These are the three phases read more

A generous person forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives. Learn, earn, return. These are the three phases of life.