daily contemplation

" If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."

~ Michelangelo

"Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose."

~ Thomas Edison

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

~ Norman Vincent Peale