Sublime

“What Is Essential Is Invisible to the Eye.”

“Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up,” Herzen says. “But a child’s purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn’t disdain what only lives for a day. It pours the whole of itself into each moment … Life’s bounty is in its flow. Later is too late.”

Dad's Seven-Point Creed: 1. Be true to yourself. 2. Help others. 3. Make each day your masterpiece. 4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible. 5. Make friendship a fine art. 6. Build a shelter against a rainy day. 7. Pray for guidance, and count and give thanks for your blessings every day.

Beckett still puts his big hand on the top of my head when we’re in parking lots like he’s afraid I’m going to run directly into traffic. I’m twenty-six years old.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. —PLATO, ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHER

Being good, he discovered, was no good. No one loved you for being good, except God, presumably, and even there he was beginning to have his doubts.

convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a finger-print and as universal as an open hand.

“Waste no more time arguing what a good [person] should be. Be one.”