“To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.” LifeHumansLongMomentsRunningObjectsLong TimeLifetimeSupposed To BeHuman LifeStreamsGloriousTidesJustificationFlood Author:James Dickey
“Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.” IfsLifeHumansKindLittlesLongLife IsChoicesWaitingProcessHuman LifeFillingSantaArrivalsSanta ClausFilling InLong Wait Author:Eric Berne
“Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.” WorldFeelsHumansWellsLongSometimesRunningVoiceLaughingTearsLaughterHuman LifeDry Book:Between Tears and Laughter Source: Between Tears and Laughter