Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.