Forgetting is a virtue; memory a vice. – Juan Ramón Jiménez
Career change
Now the end I think is always the same: how to live in leisure at our ease. But people do not always seek the way properly. Often they think they have left their occupations behind when they have merely changed them. – Montaigne
Happiness
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi
Most people
Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. – Maya Angelou
Happy sleep
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. – Leonardo da Vinci
Miles covered
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. – Louis L’Amour
Freedom
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Make no judgments
Make no judgments where you have no compassion. – Anne McCaffrey
The gift of life
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. – Voltaire
Don’t be afraid of death
Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live. – Natalie Babbitt