Quote Of The Day

[SeekingAfrica]

I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief. C.S. Lewis

This hits home today, I'm so angry at everything I've lost this year that it keeps me stuck. I have to let go.

 

[SeekingAfrica]

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."-- Carl Jung

 

[Freddyt]

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Wade Boggs

 

[SeekingAfrica]

'Take your time. Even when there is no time.slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.' -Ruben in the Teacup TV series

 

[Rose White]

Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden, 17th century English poet

 

[Rose White]

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.” -Voltaire

(Happy 330th Birthday Voltaire born around November 21, 1694 in Paris)

 

[Rose White]

“Human nature is the same in all professions.”
-Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
From his novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

 

[Rose White]

I experienced by observing my own body and my own soul that I sorely needed sin, sorely needed concupiscence, needed greed, vanity, and the most shameful despair to learn to stop resisting, to learn to love the world and stop comparing it to some world I only wished for and imagined, some sort of perfection I myself had dreamed up, but instead to let it be as it was and to love it and be happy to belong to it. — Hermann Hesse

 

[Rose White]

It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots.
—Robert Bly

 

[Rose White]

I believe that this [Government] is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
—Benjamin Franklin, in a statement read before signing the Constitution

 

[Rose White]

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
—Winston Churchill born 150 years ago today

 

[parrotthepolly]

A slip is a slip and doesn't have to snowball into a bender.