When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Life is busy. There are daily obligations that have to be met. Take time to think about how precious and special human life is - you only get one such life. Every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.