Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson