Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

Life is a re-discovery.

On reading the first part of Anthony Powell's four-part masterpiece, 'A Dance to the Music of Time,' I was struck by one of the characters - an irritating peripheral character- who keeps showing up in the main protagonist's life.

City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business.