Perhaps the best cure for the fear of de…

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern — why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be

Quote, saying and phrase by: William Hazlitt

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all …

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Dean Koontz

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea t…

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Barbara Mikkelson