Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. Toni Morrison

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine

Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Ovid

Children make your life important. Erma Bombeck

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. Dorothy Thompson

Death is a once in a lifetime experience. unknown

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. A Sachs

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. Josephus Daniels

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Alice Walker

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. Kahlil Gibran

Digest: One of the greatest mistakes in life is to fear continually you will make one. unknown

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. unknown