Persist

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
~Tobias Wolff
In Pharaoh's Army

Reverence for Life

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental
principle of morality,
namely, that good consists in maintaining,
assisting, and enhancing life and
that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil.
Affirmation of the world -- that is affirmation
of the will to live,
which appears in phenomenal forms all around me -- is only possible for me in that
I give myself out for other life.

~Albert Schweitzer

I try to laugh

I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
~Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000