Life and Existence

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

Convictions are prisons.

There is no education like adversity.

Do not wait for the last judgement. It comes every day.

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I speak no comfort to you, for there is no comfort for such pain within the circles of the world. The uttermost choice is before you: to repent and go to the Havens and bear away into the West the memory of our days together that shall there be evergreen but never more than memory; or else to abide the Doom of Men.

 

I speak no comfort to you, for there is no comfort for such pain within the circles of the world. The uttermost choice is before you: to repent and go to the Havens and bear away into the West the memory of our days together that shall there be evergreen but never more than memory; or else to abide the Doom of Men.

 

The Road goes ever on and on

 

“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”

 

In Memoriam.

 

I hold it true, whate’er befall;

 

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’

 

For my purpose holds

 

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

 

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

 

Much have I seen and known; cities of men

 

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink