Live and die...

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live. 

Morrie Schwartz

Rust...

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. 

Robert South

Time...

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.  

~Henry Van Dyke

In the Attitude of Silence...

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.  Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

 ~Mahatma Gandhi

Dry....

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry.  Most people do.

~Norman Juster

Stumbling Blocks...

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
~Jack Penn

The Path...

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A perfect summer day..

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

Learn...

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

Yesterday and Today...

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Secrets of life...

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn

Changing Seasons...

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana