What we choose to fight is so tiny…
When we win it’s with small things,
and the triumph itself makes us small.
··· Saturday, 22 May 2010 ···
··· Monday, 12 Apr 2010 ···
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
··· Sunday, 11 Apr 2010 ···
Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
··· Sunday, 21 Mar 2010 ···
To depend on God alone is our true autonomy.
··· Friday, 19 Mar 2010 ···
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
··· Thursday, 18 Mar 2010 ···
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
··· Sunday, 14 Mar 2010 ···
Nothing is worth more than this day.
··· Thursday, 18 Feb 2010 ···
A Moment’s Halt—a momentary taste
Of Being from the Well amid the Waste—
And Lo!—the phantom Caravan has reach’d
The Nothing it set out from—Oh, make haste!
··· Friday, 29 Jan 2010 ···
He who wishes to learn must believe.
··· Wednesday, 30 Dec 2009 ···
Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is really worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It’s okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.
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