Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

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.

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.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Mankind makes living contradictory.

Mankind makes living contradictory.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than read more

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.