Life

Seneca
When we have provided against cold, hunger and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

Sono
Every morning and every evening, and whenever anything happens to you, keep on saying," Thanks for everything. I have no complaint whatsoever."

Seneca
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Bill Tammeus
Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age.

Ram Dass
You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.

Louise Erdrich
Your life feels different to you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle-sale ever after-lightly because you realise you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.