When I hear somebody sigh that “Life is hard,”
I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”

Life is hard.
After all, it kills you.

Life’s easier once it’s clear
that you cannot actually die from embarrassment.

Opus, January 15, 2006

Life is easier to take than you think:
all that is necessary is to accept the impossible,
do without the indispensable,
and bear the intolerable.

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.

Life is complex.
It has real and imaginary components.

Life is complicated and impossible to grasp fully. It’s so much easier to reduce everything to one problem that can be cured by some special pill or medicine. …The crazy thing is that it’s not that people love drugs so much as they love the idea of fast relief.

I Want to Change But I Don’t Know How!

Life is like a cob web,
not an organization chart.

It’s interesting how many of us
tend to view our lives
as a stop-and-go progression.

“Living Is a Lifetime Job”

Life isn’t one straight line.
Most of us have to be transplanted,
like a tree, before we blossom.

in Reader’s Digest, July 1, 1983