Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
-Norman Vincent Peale, 1895-1993, Amercan author and pastor.
My take: just be sure to take a peek first to be sure that there are no pit bulls on the other side of the fence. Also, remember that whole “grass is greener” thing, so you might want to [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Courage
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged courage, heart, Norman Vincent Peale, Peale, success on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Failure
Posted in Quotation, tagged failure, Robert Schuller, Schuller, success on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- Robert Schuller, born 1926, American televangelist and pastor.
My take: Well, first off, I’d buy a lottery ticket and some speculative penney stocks, just to get the money problems out of the way.
Immortality
Posted in Quotation, tagged Allen, death, fame, Immortality, legacy, Woody Allen on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
-Woody Allen, born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935, American actor, film director, comedian.
My take: Ah, to go on living indefinitely in anonymity, or die famous and live on only as a memory in people’s minds, books, movies, stories. What [...]
Fashion
Posted in Quotation, tagged fashion, Oscar Wilde, ugliness, Wilde on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde, 1856-1900, Irish playwright, novelist, poet.
My take: Yes, but give it a few years and it might come right back again as the must have look (at least for another six months).
Cures
Posted in Quotation, tagged birth, cure, death, George Santayana, Santayana on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana, 1863-1952, author and philosopher.
My take: then, let the good times roll. Time to party.
Life
Posted in Quotation, tagged Kierkegaard, life, problem, reality, Soren Kierkegaard on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
-Soren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher
What is not – nothingness.
Posted in Quotation, tagged Lao Tzu, nothingness, utility, what is, what is not, zen on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Clay is molded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing….Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.
-Lao Tzu, 6th century BC, Chinese philosopher.
My take: Like the hole in the donut. But wait, that’s not the same. What is [...]
Work worth doing.
Posted in Quotation, tagged desperation, prize, quiet desperation, Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Thoreau, work. on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
-Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th American president
My take: Perhaps this is why “the mass of men live lives of quiet desperation” (Henry David Thoreau). Most people don’t feel that their jobs are worth doing. It is just a [...]
Little things
Posted in Quotation, tagged affliction, Benjamin Disraeli, Disraeli, little things, small stuff on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Little things afflict little minds.
-Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British prime minister, author.
My take: as a friend used to say: “Don’t sweat the small stuff, and in the long run, everything is small stuff.”
Violent death.
Posted in Quotation, tagged crime, death, inhibitions, James, P D James, P.D. James, violent on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Violent death was a great releaser of inhibitions, the convulsive kick which spun open the top of so many ant hills.
-P.D. James, born 1920, British author of crime fiction, in A Mind to Murder.
Biographical note: full name and title – Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park.
