To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Cathleen Schine – The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Indispensable Happiness
I
Invisible Labor
I
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Cathleen Schine – The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Personal Conflict
P
Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself.
Cathleen Schine – The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Love’s Vulnerability
L
Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.
Cathleen Schine – The Three Weissmanns of Westport
World’s Beauty
W
The beauty of the world…has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Cathleen Schine – The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Taking Initiative
T
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Cathleen Schine – The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Free Will
F
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?
Cathleen Schine – The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Nature’s Pace
N
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
T. Coraghessan – Wild Child and Other Stories
Internal Adventure
I
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
T. Coraghessan – Wild Child and Other Stories
Memory Bias
M
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
T. Coraghessan – Wild Child and Other Stories