When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange my youth.
tso-life wisdom
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
beauty
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
nature tso-life wonder wonders
Can I ever know you Or you know me
I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes.
No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.
worth
I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes
action
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise
experience tso-life wisdom
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy
joy
Life is a frail moth flyingCaught in the web of the years that pass.
tso-life
Life is but thought.
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had
tso-love
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
results tso-life wisdom
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done...inexorably, unalterably done.
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring