Post Your Quote of the Day

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery."

H.G. Wells


https://graciousquotes.com/h-g-wells/

 

"If I'd known that I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."

W.C. Fields? (I've also heard that George Burns is the author of that quote)


"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
W. C. Fields
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/w-c-fields-quotes

 

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt

 

Stop looking back at the past, you'll walk into walls that way.

 

"No good deed goes unpunished "

Unknown author

 

Note to self:

"Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal."

Rudolf Virchow

https://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/brevity.html

 

The cost of experience is the price of persistence.

 

I like that and will borrow it with or with out your permission.

To whom should attribute that quote, is it yours?

Even if it's not yours it is a very good concept to ponder, very good.

A lot of people don't know this one. It isn't secret information, it's just that there are very few people who seem to realize it-

"The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is apathy. The antithesis of love is called fear." -

I forget who I head that from.

 

Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with the operating system.

 

This country was not founded to make people safe, it was founded to make people free.

 

So true-- it's not always an advantage, being early. But usually, it is.

I admit this, as a perennially late procrastinator. I even came into the world, two weeks after my due date... and have been falling further behind, ever since.

 

I just cracked open a book of the poetry of Rilke. These excerpts are from the first of his Duino Elegies


...beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we can still barely endure,
& while we stand in wonder, it coolly disdains to destroy us. Every Angel is terrifying...

Ah, whom can we turn to, in our need? Not Angels, not humans, and the sly animals see at once how little at home we are
in the interpreted world. That leaves us
some tree on a slope, to which our eyes returned day after day; leaves us yesterday's street and the coddled loyalty of an old habit
that liked it here, lingered, and never left...

 

Two more Rilke poems, untitled, from among his uncollected works.

#1:

Unsteady scales of life
forever swaying, how seldom
a confident weight dares
announce the load of its constantly
altering opposite number.


Across the way, death's
peaceful scales.
Space on the
brother-and-sister pans.
Distinctionless space. And beside it,
unused,
all of equanimity's weights,
gleaming, in order.




#2:


Ah, adrift in the air,
how much unfulfilled return.
The things that expel us,
so often, afterward,
once we've gone,
hopelessly spread their arms.
For no course leads back.
Everything lifts us up and away,
and the belatedly open house
stays empty.

 

The Dildo of karma really arrives with lubrication already applied.,..

 

Growing old isn't for wussies either.

Kids nowadays play with Transformer toys.

Since reaching my 2nd childhood I realized that WE become the transformer toys, corneas, hips, knees, pacemakers, hearing aids, etc, etc

 

When you remain true to yourself you are in alignment with the universe.

 

Made me chuckle. But here is a different take on the idea, by G. K. Chesterton:

An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure, wrongly considered.