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How strange it is, our little procession of
life! The child says, “When I am a big boy.” But what is that? The big boy
says, “When I grow up.” And then, grown up, he says, “When I get married.” But
to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to “When I’m able to
retire.” And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape
traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all,
and it is gone. - Stephen Leacock
Life is distressing insomuch as we give
exaggerated importance to altogether unimportant matters. Drifting along, I
have observed that we men and women disturb ourselves about trifles,
overlooking in the needless excitement the innumerable beauties which wait upon
the way. Every ripple is not a wave, every wind is not a hurricane. Why worry
whilst we are still upon the stream? It will be time enough to trouble when we
meet the sea. - Charles Edward Jerningham
Life is like patchwork: every day there is a
fresh bit to be put on. We must understand more correctly how to fit in better
the bits needed day by day in repairing this patchwork life of ours. As it is,
the three-cornered bits too often get put into the square places; but it is
essential for man's happiness that he comprehends and unhesitatingly accepts as
a truism that it rests with us to make this patchwork to our own liking; that
we have the power to shape this life of ours more regularly, harmoniously, and
blend it more perfectly; and that our life as it is, or as it might be, depends
upon whether this be done in the right spirit. - James Platt
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