Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
By taking things personally, you set yourself up to suffer. The impact on you and the ripple effects on those around you are unhealthy. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt
Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations