Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only read more

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.

Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

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.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too read more

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals read more

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. -Aaron Antonovsky.