[ All credit to jhartho, whose lovely picture may be found here. ]
“Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential.
One has only so much time in this world,
so devote it to the work and the people most important to you,
to those you love and things that matter.
One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn’t really like,
or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.”
[ Louis L’Amour – Ride the River ]
[ All credit to rodneyharrison1966, whose lovely picture may be found here. ]
“Mr. Constant,”
he said,
“right now you’re as easy for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to watch as a man on a street corner selling apples and pears.
But just imagine how hard you would be to watch if you had a whole office building jammed to the rafters with industrial bureaucrats
—men who lose things and use the wrong forms and create new forms and demand everything in quintuplicate,
and who understand perhaps a third of what is said to them;
who habitually give misleading answers in order to gain time in which to think,
who make decisions only when forced to, and who then cover their tracks;
who make perfectly honest mistakes in addition and subtraction,
who call meetings whenever they feel lonely,
who write memos whenever they feel unloved;
men who never throw anything away unless they think it could get them fired.
A single industrial bureaucrat,
if he is sufficiently vital and nervous,
should be able to create a ton of meaningless papers a year for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to examine.”
[ All credit to bostankorkulugu, whose lovely picture may be found here. ]
“…time was not passing…it was turning in a circle…”
[ All credit to andrew and hobbes, whose lovely picture may be found here. ]
“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.”
[ John Lubbock ]
[ All credit to eleth@n in China!, whose lovely picture may be found here. ]
” Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart,
and never forget,
that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man,
all human wisdom is contained in these two words,
‘Wait and Hope.”
[ Alexandre Dumas ]
[ All credit to InCaudaVenenum, whose lovely picture may be found here. ]
“I thought about how there are two types of secrets:
the kind you want to keep in,
and the kind you don’t dare to let out.”
[ All credit to Timoleon Vieta II, whose lovely picture may be found here. ]
“I wanted a perfect ending.
Now I’ve learned,
the hard way,
that some poems don’t rhyme,
and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Life is about not knowing,
having to change,
taking the moment and making the best of it,
without knowing what’s going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
[ Gilda Radner ]
