Life and Existence

Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.

 

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? J. R. R.

 

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. J. R. R.

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. J. R. R.

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. J. R. R.

 

Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. J. R. R.

 

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

 

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

 

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to. J. R.

 

The difficulty in life is the choice.

 

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. J. R. R.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. St.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming.

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. J. R. R.

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. J. R. R.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. E. M.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. J.R.R.

 

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. J. R. R.

 

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. J. R. R.

 

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. J. R. R.

 

Can I ever know you or you know me?