-- Edith Wharton
Pursuing active retirement. Seeing the world. Striving for an agile mind, body, and spirit.
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Quote of the Day -- Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Quote of the Day -- Terry Pratchett
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the
place you came from with new eyes and extra colors…. Coming back to
where you started is not the same as never leaving.
-- Terry Pratchett
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Quote of the Day -- E.E. Cummings
Monday, June 25, 2018
Quote of the Day -- Elie Wiesel
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
-- Elie Wiesel
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Quote of the Day -- Franz Kafka
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet
perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience
they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
-- Franz Kafka
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Quote of the Day -- Samuel Smiles
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study,
lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
-- Samuel Smiles
Friday, June 22, 2018
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Quote of the Day -- David Brooks
The great achievement of the meritocracy is that it has widened
opportunities to those who were formerly oppressed. But diversity is a
midpoint, not an endpoint. Just as a mind has to be opened so that it
can close on something, an organization has to be diverse so that
different perspectives can serve some end. Diversity for its own sake,
without a common telos, is infinitely centrifugal, and leads to social
fragmentation.
-- David Brooks, NY Times, 28 May 2018
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Quote of the Day -- Henry Van Dyke
Monday, June 18, 2018
Quote of the Day -- Epicurus
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Quote of the Day -- Robert F Kennedy
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
-- Robert F Kennedy
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Quote of the Day -- William Faulkner
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
-- William Faulkner
Friday, June 15, 2018
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Quote of the Day -- Anthony Bourdain
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it
hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes
you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your
consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with
you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
-- Anthony Bourdain
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Friday, June 1, 2018
Quote of the Day -- Dolly Parton
Yes, I’ve always been a dreamer, and yes, I have always tried. And
dreams are special things. But dreams are of no value if they’re not equipped
with wings and feet and hands and all that. If you’re going to make a dream
come true, you’ve got to work with it. You can’t just sit around. That’s a
wish. That’s not a dream.
-- Dolly Parton
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