Posted on August 25, 2022 “Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”—James Baldwin, American writer, 1924-1987
Posted on August 19, 2022August 18, 2022 “Our most important thoughts are those which contradict our emotions.”—Paul Valery, French poet, 1871-1945
Posted on August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 “If you don’t have sex for a long time, it sucks, but you’re calm about it. If you haven’t had it for sixteen days, you’re dangerous.”—Jenny Troanni, main character in “Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer”, by Jen Sincero, American author, speaker & success coach, b. 1965
Posted on August 14, 2022August 14, 2022 “You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.”—Germaine Greer, Australian feminist author, 1939-
Posted on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022 “An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”—Pliny the Younger [Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundis], 61-c.113 AD
Posted on August 2, 2022August 1, 2022 “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”—Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian biochemist, 1893-1986
Posted on July 28, 2022July 28, 2022 “What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900
Posted on July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 “Nothing is a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.”—Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, 1875-1961
Posted on July 26, 2022July 25, 2022 “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”—Italian proverb
Posted on July 24, 2022July 24, 2022 “Everybody calls ‘clear’ those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.”—Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922
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