Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
—A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
28 November 2013
27 November 2013
Culture oppresses, and culture defends.
We hear a lot about “culture clashes” and “culture wars” these days, in a world of homogenization and globalization. Thanks to my Facebook friend Brenda Morison for this thought-provoking quotable…
23 November 2013
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
—Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)
22 November 2013
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
—John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
17 November 2013
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.
—Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
14 November 2013
13 November 2013
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
—Lao Tzu (604 BC – 531 BC)
12 November 2013
11 November 2013
In rememberance…
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
—John McCrae (1872–1918)
9 November 2013
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
—Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)