We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given...

the death of a purposeful person is not the death of purpose

Life is not a bootcamp for heaven, but life is a heaven for spiritual procession.

In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne’s lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean...

Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. – L. R. W. Lee

Love will wreck your heart like a derailed train. So choo-choose your partner wisely.

IthakaAs you set out for Ithakahope the voyage is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery.Laistrygonians and Cyclops,angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:you’ll never find things like that on your wayas long as you...

do not only describe your situation, that event, that person, place or that thing. By describing, we limit our thoughts in pondering. We ought to prescribe. The sick describes his illness to the doctor and...

Life is an experiment and experience.

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

Creation is scientific.

Life is always blissful and simple, only we make it difficult and impossible.

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

Life is not about what you are but what you are going to be.

I recreate myself; that is my only power.

Words are words. People add meaning to words. Information is information. With words people add value to information. Words breathe life into information. Words move mountains of information.Words are action. Momentum for living evolves from...

Forget the place you’re trying to get to and see the beauty in right now…

Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.

A quiet soul, peaceful life

Every moment is going bypart of life is saying goodbye.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

Academic degrees can never buy you decency and wisdom. Both are heavenly gifts.

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter...

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.

The greatest wisdom is indistinguishable from the greatest folly.

Life is really simple if we know the purpose of life.

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days?

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.

You can achieve great things when depend more on God.

My next breath may very well be in your lungs. Store it wisely, because my life depends on it.

…unfortunately, it’s true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever...

The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people’s imperfection, the criminal is much harsher than a good man), because he so wants to obtain trust...

I wouldn’t advise making a four-year commitment to eventually land an $8.00/hour job. Skip college. Read Wikipedia for free instead.

Are we not all one flesh? One mind? A sword brings power. Knowledge brings coin. With either, one can make blood reckoned, can earn names. The only thing that differs between a noble man and...

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

Happiness is in nature, beauty, and tranquility.

The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and...

Life’s journey on earth is the only sacred travel.

A happy mind is also a beautiful universal mind.

Be a thinker, be a dreamer, be a believer, be a doer, and, above all, be a kind lover.

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

Life’s too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly.

Wisdom is stronger than steel. It can break and it can heal.

Be Relentless in your Compassion for it is Your Power.

People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever.

The earth is my home, the journey is my destination.

Nothing succeeds like Detached success.

Tempers are temporary, but hateful and hurtful words can be remembered forever. Leave a legacy of love and say only kind things.