Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

Thank God forgiven me of my many sins.

Lot of our life wasted by finding the reality, although we live in unstable nature and with a lot of illogical laws.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.