On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

Paul Ricoeur

Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.
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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

Anne Lamott

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Thomas Huxley

Happiness is not a destination, it is the way of life
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The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. - Joseph Campbell

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
- Clayton Christensen

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“Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven, But Nobody Wants To Die!”


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To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

William Samuel Johnson

He who is brave is free.
- Seneca

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To exist is to experience suffering.
Suffering arises from attachment.
All things are impermanent, including suffering.
The way to overcome suffering is through The Noble Eightfold Path.

-Siddhartha Gautama (a.k.a. The Buddha)

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
- Angela Schwindt

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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Maria Montessori

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
- Albert Camus

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