Life only avails* not the having lived. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. ♥ 1 Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. ♥ 2 [ Of Abraham Lincoln :] His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? Abraham Lincoln The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. Mark Twain If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work … I want to achieve it through not dying. Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975) ch. 12 Woody Allen