Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
– Norman Cousins
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/41499-death-is-not-the-greatest-loss-in-life-the-greatest
Nov 192013
Nov 182013
Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken)
Forgive quickly, kiss slowly
Love truly, laugh uncontrollably
And never regret anything that makes you smile.
The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom)
Don’t sweat the small stuff,
You are who you are meant to be,
Dance as if no one’s watching,
Love as if it’s all you know,
Dream as if you’ll live forever,
Live as if you’ll die today.
– James Dean
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/273725-remember-life-is-short-break-the-rules-they-were-made
Nov 172013
Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
for I had wandered off from the straight path.
– Dante, The Divine Comedy, first lines of Inferno, Robert and Jean Hollander translation
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/3FBY1GAQF7JIY
Nov 162013
But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right,
or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature?
There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact.
For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient;
from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.
– Aristotle, Politics, 350 B.C.E.
Nov 152013
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
– Christian Morgenstern
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/161531-home-is-not-where-you-live-but-where-they-understand
Nov 142013
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action –
from a peaceful heart.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie, from his book 100 Secrets for Finding The Life You Love
Nov 132013
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
– Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons