Creating, collecting, and sharing thoughts and ideas. And learning along the way.
Words worthy of quoting and remembering.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
– Samuel Johnson
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
– Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961)
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
– Arnold H. Glasow
Lovers never get tired of each other, because they are always talking about themselves.
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
– Horace (65-8BC) [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace.
Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos (1813), Canto 2, stanza 20.
Byron takes this thought from Publius (42BC) [Publilius Syrus] Roman writer, philosopher. Translated as follows: To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
My thoughts: It is the manner in which one strives for happiness that determines one’s success to this end. I believe that the only lasting way to acquire and preserve this notion of happiness is by being of service to your fellowmen. In serving others one gains lasting happiness.
