But when I lose my temper I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical which may be masochistic of me.

On the plus side death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death because they are greater than anything he finds in himself and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

I had reasoned this out in my mind there was one of two things I had a right to liberty or death if I could not have one I would have the other.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.

I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.