Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa, , you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.

Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions onto the blank paper.

Be happy you are alive and be good.

He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject--what a burden his life was.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

I'm still going to Disney World.

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.