Quotes
That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very very good.
If you act as the enemy of life, then life will become your enemy.
As long as you keep getting born, it’s okay to die sometimes.
Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, … underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.
And for a long time yet, led by some wondrous power, I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
What we learn in kindergarten comes up again and again in our lives as long as we live. In far more complex, polysyllabic forms, to be sure. In lectures, encyclopedias, bibles, company rules, courts of law, sermons, and handbooks. Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.
Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don’t forget.
A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
For in order to avoid having to deal with relative values, he had long since come to deny all purpose to the phenomenon of existence — it was more expedient and comforting.
p. 65
