A quote from the Diamond Sutra

One of my all-time favorite quotes (helps to keep one balanced in an insane world):

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud;
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

And remember that little song we all sang as kids?  (how true it was--and is!): 

Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream,
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.