Posted on January 9, 2023 “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”—Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922
Posted on December 17, 2022December 20, 2022 “He that hath no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.”—Thomas Fuller, English physician, 1654-1734
Posted on December 12, 2022December 14, 2022 “Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.”—Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet, 1802-1850
Posted on December 6, 2022December 5, 2022 “Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”—Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French maxim author, 1613-1680
Posted on December 3, 2022December 3, 2022 “It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper, so cry away.”—Charles Dickens, English writer & social critic, 1812-1870
Posted on November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 “There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.”—Milan Kundera, Czech writer, 1929–
Posted on November 25, 2022November 24, 2022 “Intimacy requires courage, because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.”—Rollo May, American psychologist, 1909-1994
Posted on November 20, 2022 “In proportion as our inward life fails, we go constantly and desperately to the post office.”—Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, 1817-1862
Posted on November 13, 2022 “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.”—Jane Wagner, American writer, 1935–
Posted on October 22, 2022October 22, 2022 “I am amazed that anyone who has made a fortune should send for his friends.”—Aristophanes, Greek playwright, 446-386 BC
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