“It’s not what enters men’s mouths that’s evil. It’s what comes out of their mouths that is.” –Paulo Coelho The Alchemist “If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.” –Virginia Woolf Recent events, and subsequent comments about them in the media have got my ire up.Continue reading “You Get More With Honey”
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Keeping Promises to Myself
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” –Confucius “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” –PauloContinue reading “Keeping Promises to Myself”
The End of a project: What’s Next?
“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births: they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people…so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.” –Virginia Woolf “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” –Anne Frank “The only way to enjoyContinue reading “The End of a project: What’s Next?”
Women and Men
“We’re not what books and plays say we are. We’re not what advertisements say we are. We’re not in the movies and we’re not on the radio. We’re not what you’re all told and what you think we are: We’re ourselves. And if any man can find one of us he’ll learn why the wholeContinue reading “Women and Men”
The Mystery of Life
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” -Dalai Lama “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” -Albert Pike I’ve been weeping most of the morning, because IContinue reading “The Mystery of Life”