-- Jules Renard
Pursuing active retirement. Seeing the world. Striving for an agile mind, body, and spirit.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Monday, December 30, 2019
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Eugène Delacroix
How strange painting is, it delights us with representations of objects that are not pleasing in themselves!
--Eugène Delacroix
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Friday, December 27, 2019
Thursday, December 26, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Winston Churchill
For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
– Winston S. Churchill
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Matthew Walker
Sleep is the single most effective thing
we can do to reset our brain and body health each day — Mother Nature’s
best effort yet at contra-death.
-- Matthew Walker
Monday, December 23, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Harry S. Truman
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit
are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit
suicide to avoid assassination.
-- Harry S. Truman
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Daniel Kahneman
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Friday, December 20, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Fred Rogers
Anything that we can do to help foster the
intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings,
that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must
continue against all odds. Life is for service.
– Fred Rogers
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Isaac Asimov
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
-- Isaac Asimov
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Sydney J Harris
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Marcus Aurelius
People look for retreats for themselves, in the
country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person
can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind. .
. . So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.
-- Marcus Aurelius
Monday, December 16, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Nicholas Taleb
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.
-- Nicholas Taleb
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Anne Frank
At
such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty
that still remains. This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her
advice in the face of melancholy is: 'Think about all the suffering in
the world and be thankful you're not part of it.' My advice is: 'Go
outside, to the country, enjoy the sun and all nature has to offer. Go
outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself; think of all
the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.'
I don't think Mother's advice can be right, because what are you supposed to do if you become part of the suffering? You'd be completely lost. On the contrary, beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance. A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!
I don't think Mother's advice can be right, because what are you supposed to do if you become part of the suffering? You'd be completely lost. On the contrary, beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance. A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!
-- Anne Frank
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Quote of the Day -- John Brown
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the
crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt
to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
–
John Brown
Friday, December 13, 2019
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Quote of the Day -- John Weiss
-- John Weiss
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Harriet Tubman
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always
remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the
passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
--Harriet Tubman
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Aldous Huxley
Monday, December 9, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Herman Wouk
Sunday, December 8, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Caroline Knapp
Sometimes
I look back and think my whole adult life has been underlined with a
feeling of waiting – waiting for something to happen, waiting for
circumstances to change, waiting for the right man or the right job or
the right shoes-and-clothes-and-haircut to swoop down from above and
change me, to infuse me from the outside in with a feeling of well-being
and validation and peace of mind.
-- Caroline Knapp
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Samuel Huntington
The dangerous clashes of the future are
likely to arise from the interaction of Western arrogance, Islamic
intolerance, and Sinic assertiveness.
-- Samuel Huntington
Friday, December 6, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Jane Goodall
My job now is to try and help people understand every one of us makes a
difference. And cumulatively, wise choices in how we act each day can
begin to change the world.
-- Jane Goodall
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Audrey Hepburn
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two
hands—one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
-- Audrey Hepburn
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Bertrand Russell
The
only cure [for envy] in the case of ordinary men and women is
happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a terrible obstacle
to happiness.
-- Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Jim Loehr
We live in a
world that celebrates work and activity, ignores renewal and recovery,
and fails to recognize that both are necessary for sustained high
performance.
Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.
– Jim Loehr
Monday, December 2, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Morgan Housel
Your personal experiences make up maybe
0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you
think the world works... We’re all biased to our own personal history.
-- Morgan Housel
Sunday, December 1, 2019
Quote of the Day -- Bill Bryson
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
-- Bill Bryson
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