Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Quote by Walker Percy

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What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it...

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it...

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the...

Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the...

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world....

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world....

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness...

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness...

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great...

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great...

Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would...

Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would...

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant...

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant...

All, all of a piece throughout; Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars...

All, all of a piece throughout; Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars...

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them:...

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them:...

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a...

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a...

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of...

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of...

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead...

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead...

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is...

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is...

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a...

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a...

No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but...

No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but...

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment...

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment...

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of...

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of...

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from...

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from...