Defining moments
It has always interested me how life can turn on a sixpence, for better and worst. Adam Bede is one...
Fine writing, fine doing
My earliest impressions of Keats were as a languishing poetic type, not a man of action. Now, after getting to...
Life simile
What a surprising simile for life - at least in its easeful moments - likening it to a familiar tool...
Affluence of life and certainty of flow
How about that for a well-wishing phrase to fling into the world! May you enjoy both affluence of life and...
On living forever
Listening time: 2 minutes. This long and winding quotation enchanted me to the extent that I wrote it out...
Reading to live more intensely
Reading allows you to meet people, places, periods and perspectives you might never otherwise encounter, intensifying your experience of life. ...
On the practice of life
Alice Herz-Sommer was a pianist also believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, living to 110. She combined an astonishing...
This is my life
This statement of arrow-straight simplicity could serve as an occasional sanity check. If it rings true, we’re on track. If it causes a flinch or a...
An unmapped river
A marvelous image for human destinies, usually well hidden no matter the efforts we make to discern them. Since this...
Thoughts on modern life
I found this passage striking and moving, perhaps putting its finger on the pulse of much contemporary malaise. It feels...
The art of living fully
And how!  May you be ever inventive in living a full life. I will find some images that merit this quotation...
Life as gift
A strong statement by a man whose life was taken from him in the harshest circumstances, and who lived at...
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