"Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious." ― Phillips Brooks Topic(s): Life More From Phillips Brooks "Happiness is the natural flower of duty." "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." "A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words." More In Life "Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."― Carl Friedrich Gauss "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."― Henry Miller "The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings."― Henri Frederic Amiel