February 2012
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Painful Peace →
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“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to...”
– Tennessee Williams
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“Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic...”
– Thomas Wolfe
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“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far...”
– Thomas Wolfe
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Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the...
Mary Schmich
June 1, 1997
Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who’d rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to sow our words of wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns, but there’s no reason we can’t entertain ourselves by composing a Guide to Life...
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“We must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of...”
– Pema Chödrön, Buddhist nun (quote from The Pocket Pema Chödrön, Shambhala Pocket Classics 2008)
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