Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.
The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found
I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.
It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.