It is not length of life, but depth of life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Delicious Sleep

“Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.” ―Lauren Oliver

“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Quote to ponder…

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ― Haruki Murakami

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“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

–Hunter S. Thompson


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If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

–Thomas Edison


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“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. To stand for something, and to have made some difference that you lived at all.” —Leo Rosten