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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.
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if read more
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up
for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period
of barrenness.
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.
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take
Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to read more
Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take
Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life read more
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to read more
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
