Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.
There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.
True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.
Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?
Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.
How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc. , but some vain thing immediately followed.
I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year. . . I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?
I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.