Opening Words From Wiser Folks Than I

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
~ Ecclesiastes, 1:18

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

~ Khalil Gibran.

Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

~ George Eliot

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

~ Henry Miller

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
~ Mark Twain

I am not young enough to know everything.

~ Oscar Wilde