One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
-Agatha Christie
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
-Agatha Christie
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
When we see everything in life as a game, we will be equally joyous when falling as we are when rising. If we can fully understand this – if we can see life as swinging on a swing – we will never fall apart when failure comes our way.
The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others but with yourself.
One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning. Any process of inquiry is related to learning. But basically our inquiry should be concerned with finding out what is transient and what is permanent. This is true knowledge.
The whole life of man is self-expression… We suffer if we do not express ourselves.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
-Mae West
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
-Garth Stein
"The Art of Racing in the Rain"