“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller We charge through life honoring commitments and chasing dreams. Yet nothing is more urgent than the need to pause now and then to look around at what the world presents to you. The generations…
“Do you want to do intellectual work? Begin by creating within you a zone of silence, a habit of recollection, a will to renunciation and detachment which puts you entirely at the disposal of the work; acquire that state of soul unburdened by desire and self-will which is the state of grace of the intellectual…
The sun set in the sea; the same odd sunrose from the sea,and there was one of it and one of me.– Elizabeth Bishop, Crusoe in England An old work acquaintance moved to the city, and walks to an embarrassment of great restaurants just down the street. I asked her about the noise and such…
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” – Will Rogers “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers A great humorist will kick you in the ass while they make you laugh. You could fill a blog with Will Rogers…
“A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again—and he said, “A mouse will do.” – Kahlil Gibran, The Fox Walking on a beach at sunset earlier this week,…
When illusion spin her netI’m never where I want to beAnd liberty she pirouetteWhen I think that I am freeWatched by empty silhouettesWho close their eyes but still can seeNo one taught them etiquetteI will show another meToday I don’t need a replacementI’ll tell them what the smile on my face meantMy heart going boom…
“One of the major problems that arises when people work to become more effective in life is that they don’t think broadly enough. They lose the sense of proportion, the balance, the natural ecology necessary to effective living.” — Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (all subsequent quotes are also Covey’s) I’m…
We are reconciled, I think,to too much.Better to be a bird, like this one-An ornament of the eternal.As he came down once, to the nest of the grass,“Squander the day, but save the soul,”I heard him say.– Mary Oliver, The Lark We become especially adept at committing ourselves to activities with the least return on…
“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.” – Washington Irving Washington Irving was right on the mark with this observation. Imagine if he’d lived to see people staring at their phones all day? There are so many distractions today, and never…
“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.” “When you go to heaven, Ann, you will be frightfully conscious of your wings for the first year or so….