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“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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“You think attention is love, and that’s why you suffer so deeply.”

— Unknown

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“We all eat lies when our hearts are hungry.”

— Unknown

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“I don’t hold on to anything anymore. Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore.”

— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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“You can’t go back and change the beginning, But you can start where you are and change the ending.”

— Unknown

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“No texts? I understand. No calls? I understand. No time for me? I understand. But when you see me with someone else I hope you understand.”

— Unknown

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“The Man Is Richest Whose Pleasures Are Cheapest”

— Henry David Thoreau

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“By sufferance you may escape suffering.”

— 26 June, 1840. The Journal, H. D. Thoreau.

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“Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”

- Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

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“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

— July 25, 1839.  The Journal. Henry David Thoreau.

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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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“There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.”

— Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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“If we hide or hinder ourselves in fear of rejection of others, are we not in essence, rejecting ourselves first?” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Vivere, amare, et mori memento.

“Remember to live, to love, and to die.” in Latin. Beautiful and ominous.

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“In recompense for a mind that was able to retain everything, every memory, perhaps it was necessary that the body gradually fade away.”

— Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

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René-Michel Slodtz (1705-1764) “Diana and Endymion” (c. 1740) Marble Rococo Currently in a private collection