Life in a day
A thought for every day in between the business of life
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Lose an hour ...
Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.
Richard Whateley
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Like all great travellers ...
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember,
and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
The Galloping Gardener
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Any human anywhere ...
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents
and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
I like trees ...
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way
they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather
Monday, 22 February 2010
One man's daydreaming ...
One man's daydreaming is another man's day.
Grey Livingston
Sunday, 21 February 2010
He who is dying of hunger ....
He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Either you decide ....
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool
or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve
Friday, 19 February 2010
Skating is a chilly pleasure ....
Skating is a chilly pleasure and therefore no sin.
Heinrich Heine
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Everything you can imagine ....
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Beware lest you lose the substance ...
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Illusion ...
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
Monday, 15 February 2010
You can observe a lot ...
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra
Sunday, 14 February 2010
To love and be loved ....
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Very little is needed ....
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius
Friday, 12 February 2010
New knowledge....
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The
more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Today I have grown taller ....
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
Karl Baker
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
To see ....
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Faith is the bird ....
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
Monday, 8 February 2010
When the well's dry ...
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Imagination ....
Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse
to make the picture your own.
John Collier
Saturday, 6 February 2010
A lie can travel ....
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the
truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
Friday, 5 February 2010
Praise is like sunlight ...
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit; we cannot
flower and grow without it.
Jess Lair
Thursday, 4 February 2010
If the facts don't fit ...
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Everything you can imagine ....
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Never confuse movement ....
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway
Monday, 1 February 2010
He who postpones ...
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who
waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
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