Life and Existence

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

One can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but science makes God unnecessary.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget.

The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.

 

The present is the point at which time touches eternity.

 

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

 

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

 

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

What about the creative state? In it a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us— by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace In sleep, and sink in good oblivion, And in the morning wake like a new-opened flower Then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace In sleep, and sink in good oblivion, And in the morning wake like a new-opened flower Then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one’s own integrity.

The center of the universe is still the self.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.