If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Robert Fritz



The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)



Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs



He not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan (1941 - )



A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991



Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)