Do I have the answers to life?? No, I can only answer for my life. Others must look inside themselves for what life’s answers mean to them. That life is not fair only points up the axiom that all must judge for themselves what life means to them, their progeny and their loved ones.
Life is not a journey to the grave to arrive coiffured and well preserved, but rather to slide in broadside, totally worn out, exclaiming WOW!!! WHAT A RIDE!!!”
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A life well lived can make this statement have great meaning.
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.”
Theodore Roosevelt – 26th President of the United States (1858 – 1910)
This president faced many sad events in his life, but he never surrendered to despair.
There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man’s desires, he does not live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived to long.”
Johan Georg Zimmerman – Swiss physicist (1728 – 1795)
Long life does not necessarily mean that you have lived according to God’s plan, but it does show that you have used God’s gift of free will according to your own desires.
I would so live as if I knew that I received my being only for the benefit of others.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Roman philosopher (4 B. C. _ 65 A. D.)
That we all might live so selfless would be a gift to mankind.
Life is sown thickly with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
Francois Maria de Voltaire – French poet (1694 – 1778)
To dwell on ones misfortunes robs one of the ability to overcome the trials and travails of life.
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire; not too near, lest he burn; not too far off, lest he freeze.”
Diogenes – Greek philosopher (412 – 325 B. C.)
Too close and the corrupt may contaminate us, too far away and we may not recognize the corruption.
To my way of thinking, to blunder through life void of conviction or purpose, is as vapid as a cloudless night sky without moon or stars.
Walt 2024