For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?),
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.
You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.