Sydney J. Harris on life and death

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Freud’s prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

John Lennon1940–1980Double Fantasy (1980), “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

James Dean1931–1955

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948

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