Archives - August 2019

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive...

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

The city disappears street by street as you enter it.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Those whom we have loved never really leave us. They live on forever in our hearts, and cast their radiant light onto our every shadow.

Truth hurts --- not the searching after; the running from!

Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

You can't test courage cautiously.

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.