Saturday, June 27, 2009

Finishing Our Work


Photo: Aztech New Media


The main point in the game of life is to have fun. We are afraid to have fun because somehow that makes life too easy. (Sammy Davis, Jr. in Acts of Faith by Iyanla Vanzant, 19 June)

The only way to keep calm and rational in this troubled society is to have deep inward serenity. The person thus equipped sees spiritual things as the true realities and material things as fleeting. (Look to This Day, Alan L. Roeck, 21 June)

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. (Henri Frederic Amiel, in One More Day by Sefra Kobrin Pitzele, 7 June)

But a brief existence is common to all things, and yet you pursue and avoid things as if they would be eternal. (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, X, 34)

There is no way any of us can ever finish all our work. There will always be hundreds of hours worth of "shoulds." (Alexandra Stoddard, The Art of the Possible, p. 238)

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