Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.
We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.
A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.
We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.
What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?
One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
My mom has a diary entry or something where I wrote, "I think Steven Tyler is my father. " I had the same feelings for Todd Rundgren, who raised me as his daughter. I would go to sleep at night and wake up at like 6 in the morning and creep up the little steps to the tower where he would be on his computer. I would just sit there.
My mom just told me the lines, because I didn't know how to read yet. I copied them and that's what I did.