Archives - December 2016

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature --- unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

Clutter is a weight that has built on top of you so gradually, you don't even realize anymore that it is holding you down.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans.

It is better to know what to fear than to say “no fear.”

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you’ll need right up to the day you die.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.

An apple is an excellent thing --- until you have tried a peach.

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.

There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.

The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light ---
in a little cruse --- lasted as long as they say;
but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day:
let that nourish my flickering spirit.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

People change and forget to tell each other.

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.