Liz Loves Words

The joy is in the process, the discovery, endless exploration, and constant improvement.

The small steps along the winding path, the valuable additions and revelations uncovered -- that's where we discover the joy in the smallest details.

"You can be a force for peace and for light in dark surroundings."

Technology reshapes the landscape of our emotional lives, but is it offering us the lives we want to lead?

Collect the moments one by one, I guess that's how the future's done.

Have I done my best here, or

Love isn't big, kid It's little and quiet

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

You say I turned out fine. I think I'm still turning out.

It is from common rather than individual consciousness - from generations of communal labor and not the passing whimsies of individuals - that the enduring features of human identity are born. We are above all creatures of time, defined by a history that we make together.

No matter if you're born To play the king or pawn For the line is thinly drawn between joy and sorrow So my fantasy becomes reality And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.

For no part of life, neither public affairs nor private, neither in the forum nor at home, neither when acting on our own nor in dealings with another, can be free from duty. Everything that is honorable in a life depends upon its cultivation, and everything dishonorable upon its neglect.