Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven read more

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.

Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

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.

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.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.