FastSaying

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

James Stephens

James Stephens

All ThingsCompulsionDeathDestructionExtremeHastenHealthInexorableJoyousJoysLifeLiveLogicalOurThereforeThingsTowardsUrgentWishWoes

Related Quotes

"The best things in life are the simple joys we take for granted." ~ Tom Baker
— Tom Baker aka The Pondering Man
BestGrantedJoys
Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.
— James Stephens
CuriosityDeathEither
As an outsider, this one-shot policy strikes me as a little extreme, ... Somehow, we view mental health as totally under a person's control, whereas physical health is not.
— James Pennebaker
ExtremeHealthMental health
Do all things with love.
— Og Mandino
LoveAll ThingsThings
I can't be all things to everyone.
— Delta Goodrem
All ThingsEveryoneThings