"Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing."
- Seneca
Our collection of inspiring quotes.
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
-G. K. Chesterton
"My mother always used to say: The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana."
- Rose (Betty White), The Golden Girls
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
- John Lubbock
"Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds.
You can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds."
- William Wordsworth
"Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
- James Baldwin
"His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom."
- J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
"If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe."
- Evelyn Waugh