Life Comes Before Literature

Life comes before literature, as the
material always comes before the work.

The hills are full of marble before
the world blooms with statues.

Rev. Phillips Brooks

There Is No Meaning To Life

There is no meaning to life except the meaning each of us
gives to our lives by the unfolding of our powers,by living productively.

Erich Fromm

One Must Wait Until The Evening

One must wait until the evening
to see how splendid the day has been.

Sophocles

Children Are The Living Messages

Children are the living messages
we send to a time we will not see.

Neil Postman

There Is Only One Corner

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain
of improving, and that is within your own self.

Aldous Huxley

Perfect Valor

Perfect valor is to behave,
without witnesses,
as one would act as though
all the world is watching.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The Difference Between School and Life

The difference between school and life?
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Tom Bodett

The Unreal Is More Powerful

The unreal is more powerful than the real,
because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
It is only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last.

Stone crumbles. wood rots.
people, well, they die.
But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend,
they can go on and on.

Chuck Palahnuik