Category: Thought of the Day

"Experience isn’t just what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you."

—Carlton Pearson (via This American Life)

"We all have a share in the fallen nature of the human enterprise."

—Peter J. Gomes (via Anna Deavere Smith on Radio Open Source).

"History, despite its wrenching pain,cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

—Maya Angelou

‘We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage."

—Abraham Maslow (seen in the book Peak, which I am reading at the moment).

"The future has a way of arriving unannounced."

—George Will

"The beginning of wisdom is to get you a roof." — West African Proverb. (via Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life. Again).

"In dreams begin responsibilities."

—Delmore Schwartz (via Buzz Anderson)

"When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though
they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried
with them."

—Euripides (via The Writer’s Almanac)

"The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome."

—Derek Walcott (via my friend Joelle Jay).

"Every profession is a conspiracy against the the laity."

—George Bernard Shaw (via Mike Larsen whom I had lunch with today).