Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry. - Carl Sandburg

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots.

Night from a railroad car window
is a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light.

Time is the coin of your Life.
It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine
how it will be spent.
Be careful
lest you let other people spend it for you. And when you spend it, spend it wisely so that you get the most for
your expenditure.