“Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else’s bed. Have a smart mouth, and quick wit. Run. Make art. Create. Swim in the ocean. Swim in the rain. Take chances. Ask questions. Make mistakes. Learn. Know your worth. Love fiercely. Forgive quickly. Let go of what doesn’t make you happy. Grow.”

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“When you are dead, you don’t know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others.

It is the same when you are stupid.”

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“Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.”

This is from 19th century English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, famous for writing the satire Vanity Fair.

Mahatma Gandhi concurred  with:

“Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.”

American  comedian W.C. Fields, ever the pragmatist, puts it succinctly:

“If at first you don’t succeed try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.”

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