As a tale, so is life

As a tale, so is life
""As a tale, so is life; not how long
it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
-Seneca (4? B.C.-65 A.D.) ; not how long
it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
-Seneca (4? B.C.-65 A.D.)
  

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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about \''and\''.
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place
by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.
Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life."
-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
"Quotes"

"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value".

"Love is merely madness".

"life without a friend is death without a witness".
"a means to an end.
It is both the means and the end."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
“When you sell a man a book, you don''t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.”
Christopher Morley
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves,
and, under a just God, cannot retain it."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
-"Sister" Elizabeth Kenny (1886-1952)
Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
You have to walk your own walk in this life.
And as you are traveling down your road,
Don’t look down at your feet.

Keep your head up and your eyes focused
on the road that reaches your goals.
Every great man was once a crying baby

Every great building was once a drawing on a map.

Its not important what you are today, but the important thing is what you are going to be tomorrow :)
The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find... from within and without.

Fred ''McFeely'' Rogers
"For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God,
not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition?
Is it not merely a hard word for "The Kingdom of Heaven is within"?
Heaven is neither a place nor a time."
-Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)