March 26, 2015

Taking Forever?

It does not matter how slowly you go 
as long as you do not stop.

-- Confucius

March 25, 2015

Spoken from Personal Experience

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. 
The most certain way to succeed 
is always to try 
just one more time.

-- Thomas Edison

March 24, 2015

How to Get a Quality

Very often
the only way to get a quality in reality
is to start behaving
as if you had it already.


--C.S. Lewis

March 19, 2015

Rough Diamonds

Rough diamonds 
may sometimes be mistaken for 
worthless pebbles.


-- Thomas Browne

March 18, 2015

Clenched Fist

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.



-- Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India

March 17, 2015

St. Patrick's Day Poem


O but we talked at large before
The sixteen men were shot,
But who can talk of give and take,
What should be and what not
While those dead men are loitering there
To stir the boiling pot? 



William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. "Sixteen Dead Men."