Live while you are alive
“There is only one life. No one will bring back the years; no one will restore you to yourself. Life will follow the path it began to take, and will neither reverse nor check its course. It will cause no commotion to remind you of its swiftness, but glide on quietly. It will not lengthen …
Olive Cooke was a 92 year old worker for charity, who some while ago took her own life, apparently overwhelmed with phone calls and dunning letters from charities asking her for more and more money. She had signed up to give money to 27 charities, but that done she was besieged with 267 letters a …
The Metro Section of the Washington Post on February 16 carried an article asking “When things started going downhill?” (it was a tongue-in-cheek article, and quite amusing). A Mr. Norm Phlion complained that the decline of American civilisation began when Johnson & Johnson removed the tiny red thread from Band-Aid wrappers that made applying a …
“It is inevitable that life will not just be very short but very miserable for those who acquire by great toil what they must keep by greater toil. They achieve what they want laboriously; they possess what they have achieved anxiously; and meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. New …
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no …
