Tuesday, February 5, 2013

December 2012



A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. -Spanish proverb

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it - Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. -E.L. Doctorow, writer (b. 1931)

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience - Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars - Jack Kerouac, On the Road

November 2012


Three-fourths of the miseries nd misunderstandings of the world will dissapear, if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. -Richard Dawkins, biologist and author (b. 1941)

 “We are guilty of many crimes, but our worst sin is abandoning the child; neglecting the foundation of life. Many of the things we need can wait, the child can not. We can not answer Tomorrow, Her name is Today” -- Chilean Noble Prize winner poet and teacher Gabirela Mistral