"I don't want to end up simply..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.”

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”

“I like books that are fat and full.”

“The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.”

“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”

“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achievepurpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

“The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.”

“Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”

“For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.”