Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because read more

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then read more

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

All of us have our troubles. But no matter how unhappy we are, life has to carry on.

All of us have our troubles. But no matter how unhappy we are, life has to carry on.

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my read more

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every day.

If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every 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.