| oct 31, august 25, and may 6, may 16,2004, april 19,2005 others... One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
i lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy... “But sometimes a woman’s love of being loved
gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the
thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while
she doesn’t love him at all.” | | |
Today's the day when dreaming ends.
- Satine, Moulin Rouge Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. - J. Willard Marriott
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
-Sir Winston Churchill There are no facts, only interpretations."
-Friedrich Nietzsche Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
-Friedrich Nietzsche Those who danced are called insane by those who cannot hear the music
- Nietzsche
Never
doubt that a small, dedicated group of people can change the
world. Indeed, that is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret
Mead
Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive
you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."
-- Sir William Arthur (1890-1967), British air marshal Socrates,
the man who gave us the famous saying "The man who knows most is he who
knows that he knows little", in an ironic twist had the last words of
"don't forget to sacrifice the rooster to the gods". From the realm of
philosophers to the age of the nation, even wisdom can escape the
wisest of us.
-Paraphrased story from "The Unconquerable World", by Jonathan Schnell First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.-Gandhi "It
is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face
is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs
and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the
great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the
best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the
worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory nor defeat" -Theodore Roosevelt On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.- Vincent Van Gogh "Pain,
you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the
wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers,
you just breath deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain
can be managed but sometimes the pain gets you where you least expect
it. Hits way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain, you just have to
fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it and life always makes more. "--Grey's Anatomy "The
quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the
very condition to impel man to unfold his powers." Erich Fromm. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss Politics is the struggle for power and the art of compromise- Mr. Madsen
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