Thoughts on Life

[Charis (imported)]

Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

- Viktor Frankl

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

- Henry van Dyke

Loneliness... is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

- Thomas Wolfe

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.

- H.L. Mencken

When you enjoy loving your neighbor it ceases to be a virtue.

- Kahlil Gibran

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

- Lebanese proverb

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders.

- Mark Twain

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

- Adrienne Rich

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.

- Carlos Castenada

I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundred fold.

- “Frankenstein,” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal that has the true religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.

- Mark Twain

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

- Marcus Aurelius

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams.

- Yiddish proverb

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

- Bertrand Russell