“You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?”

“To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.”

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”

“And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?”

“All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.”

“If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.”

“And let your best be for your friend.If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”