“These people were smiling because they were where they wanted to be. They understood that life is too short for what-ifs and complications. Life, they found, can be as simple as reading the wind.”
“Like Indian corn in August, the "what ifs" in my life were growing fast. Too fast.”
“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
“He felt now as if his entire body were recovering from frostbite, and he understood suddenly why people died in blizzards. It was not because they were cold and fell asleep. It was because it hurt too much to come back to life.”
“Life is too short for anger, resentment, hostility and "should have." It is too short to put off doing what brings you joy. Live each day as if it were your last, because one day it will be.”
“the time of life is short;To spend that shortness basely were too long.”